ColoCrossing data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the May 2025 breach of ColoCrossing. For every breach, see Breaches.
The ColoCrossing data breach exposed 7,183 accounts from colocrossing.com in May 2025. The data taken includes passwords, names and email addresses.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 3 Jun 2025, within a month. It is the 613th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
ColoCrossing’s breach included 3 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Passwords | Criminals try leaked passwords on email, banking and shopping sites, because people reuse them. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
What to do
- Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, ColoCrossing among them, without showing the data.
- Change your ColoCrossing password.If the account still exists, sign in at ColoCrossing (colocrossing.com) and change it.
- Change it anywhere you used the same one.Start with your email, then banking and shopping. Leaked passwords are tried on other sites automatically, within days.
- Use a password manager and two-step sign-in.A different password for every site means one breach can’t open the rest. Two-step sign-in stops a leaked password working on its own.
- Distrust messages that mention ColoCrossing.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, within a month.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Canadian Tire, October 2025, 38 million accounts
- LandAirSea, January 2025, 337,373 accounts
- The Post Millennial, May 2024, 57 million accounts
- Cutout.Pro, February 2024, 20 million accounts
- Zacks (2024), June 2024, 12 million accounts
- SurveyLama, February 2024, 4.4 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “ColoCrossing”, Have I Been Pwned, added 3 Jun 2025. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- colocrossing.com, ColoCrossing’s website