Deezer data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the April 2019 breach of Deezer. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Deezer data breach exposed 229,037,936 accounts from deezer.com in April 2019. The data taken includes usernames, dates of birth, names and email addresses and 4 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 2 Jan 2023, 4 years later. It is the 9th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Deezer’s breach included 8 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Usernames | Half of a login. With a reused password, it opens other accounts. |
| Dates of birth | Used to prove who you are to banks and phone companies. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Genders | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| Geographic locations | Roughly where you live. |
| IP addresses | Roughly where you were when you used the service. |
| Spoken languages | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
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, Deezer among them, without showing the data.
- Turn on two-step sign-in.On Deezer (deezer.com) and your email, so leaked sign-in details aren’t enough on their own.
- Distrust messages that mention Deezer.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, 4 years later.
- : the entry was last updated.
Breaches often stay hidden for a long time. Until it came out, people in it had no reason to change anything.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- TaiLieu, November 2019, 7.3 million accounts
- AlpineReplay, August 2019, 898,681 accounts
- Wattpad, June 2020, 269 million accounts
- 500px, July 2018, 15 million accounts
- Wishbone (2020), January 2020, 9.7 million accounts
- Animal Jam, October 2020, 7.1 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- deezer.com, Deezer’s website