Disk Union data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the June 2022 breach of Disk Union. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Disk Union data breach exposed 690,667 accounts from diskunion.net in June 2022. The data taken includes passwords, usernames, names and email addresses and 2 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 7 Jun 2025, 3 years later. It is the 454th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Disk Union’s breach included 6 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. |
| Usernames | Half of a login. With a reused password, it opens other accounts. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Phone numbers | Expect scam texts and calls, and a higher risk of someone moving your number to their SIM. |
| Geographic locations | Roughly where you live. |
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, Disk Union among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Disk Union password.If the account still exists, sign in at Disk Union (diskunion.net) 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 Disk Union.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
- Put a PIN on your phone account.Ask your mobile provider for a port-out PIN, so no one can move your number to their SIM.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 3 years later.
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:
- Imavex, August 2021, 878,209 accounts
- Liker, March 2021, 465,141 accounts
- The Post Millennial, May 2024, 57 million accounts
- Zacks (2024), June 2024, 12 million accounts
- Wishbone (2020), January 2020, 9.7 million accounts
- 123RF, March 2020, 8.7 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Disk Union”, Have I Been Pwned, added 7 Jun 2025. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- diskunion.net, Disk Union’s website