Have Fun Teaching data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the August 2021 breach of Have Fun Teaching. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Have Fun Teaching data breach exposed 27,126 accounts from havefunteaching.com in August 2021. The data taken includes payment methods, purchases, names and physical addresses and 3 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 25 Jun 2025, 4 years later. It is the 605th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Have Fun Teaching’s breach included 7 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Payment methods | Useful for payment fraud. |
| Purchases | Shows what you buy, which makes fake order and refund scams 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. |
| Browser user agent details | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| 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, Have Fun Teaching among them, without showing the data.
- Distrust messages that mention Have Fun Teaching.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
- 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, 4 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:
- Domino's India, March 2021, 23 million accounts
- Epik, September 2021, 15 million accounts
- Imavex, August 2021, 878,209 accounts
- ZAP-Hosting, November 2021, 746,682 accounts
- ClickASnap, September 2022, 3.3 million accounts
- Bonobos, August 2020, 2.8 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Have Fun Teaching”, Have I Been Pwned, added 25 Jun 2025. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- havefunteaching.com, Have Fun Teaching’s website