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Life360 data breach

From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the March 2024 breach of Life360. For every breach, see Breaches.

The Life360 data breach exposed 442,519 accounts from life360.com in March 2024. The data taken includes names, email addresses and phone numbers.[1]

Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 20 Jul 2024, 5 months later. It is the 493rd largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.

What was exposed

Life360’s breach included 3 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:

DataWhat it’s used for
NamesMakes scam messages personal enough to believe.
Email addressesExpect scam emails that name the company to look genuine.
Phone numbersExpect scam texts and calls, and a higher risk of someone moving your number to their SIM.

What to do

  1. Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, Life360 among them, without showing the data.
  2. Distrust messages that mention Life360.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
  3. 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, 5 months later.
  • : the entry was last updated.

Similar breaches

Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:

See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.

References

  1. ^ Troy Hunt. “Life360”, Have I Been Pwned, added 20 Jul 2024. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.