Eye4Fraud data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the January 2023 breach of Eye4Fraud. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Eye4Fraud data breach exposed 16,000,591 accounts from eye4fraud.com in January 2023. The data taken includes passwords, partial credit card data, names and physical addresses and 3 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 6 Mar 2023, 1 month later. It is the 106th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Eye4Fraud’s breach included 7 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. |
| Partial credit card data | Not enough to spend, but enough to make a fake call from your bank convincing. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Physical addresses | Used to prove who you are, and for scam letters and parcels. |
| 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. |
| IP addresses | Roughly where you were when you used the service. |
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, Eye4Fraud among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Eye4Fraud password.If the account still exists, sign in at Eye4Fraud (eye4fraud.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 Eye4Fraud.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.
- Watch your statements.Report anything you don’t recognise to your bank, and ask for a new card if full card numbers leaked.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 1 month later.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Canadian Tire, October 2025, 38 million accounts
- Imavex, August 2021, 878,209 accounts
- Bonobos, August 2020, 2.8 million accounts
- Lazada RedMart, July 2020, 1.1 million accounts
- EatStreet, May 2019, 6.4 million accounts
- Blooms Today, November 2023, 3.2 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Eye4Fraud”, Have I Been Pwned, added 6 Mar 2023. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- eye4fraud.com, Eye4Fraud’s website