Flat Earth Sun, Moon and Zodiac App data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the October 2024 breach of Flat Earth Sun, Moon and Zodiac App. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Flat Earth Sun, Moon and Zodiac App data breach exposed 33,294 accounts from flatearthdave.com in October 2024. The data taken includes passwords, usernames, dates of birth and names and 4 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 2 Mar 2025, 5 months later. It is the 602nd largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Flat Earth Sun, Moon and Zodiac App’s breach included 8 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. |
| 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. |
| Latitude and longitude pairs | 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, Flat Earth Sun, Moon and Zodiac App among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Flat Earth Sun, Moon and Zodiac App password.If the account still exists, sign in at Flat Earth Sun, Moon and Zodiac App (flatearthdave.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 Flat Earth Sun, Moon and Zodiac App.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, 5 months later.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Liker, March 2021, 465,141 accounts
- Wattpad, June 2020, 269 million accounts
- Wishbone (2020), January 2020, 9.7 million accounts
- Animal Jam, October 2020, 7.1 million accounts
- NetGalley, December 2020, 1.4 million accounts
- TrueFire, February 2020, 599,667 accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Flat Earth Sun, Moon and Zodiac App”, Have I Been Pwned, added 2 Mar 2025. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- flatearthdave.com, Flat Earth Sun, Moon and Zodiac App’s website