Teespring data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the April 2020 breach of Teespring. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Teespring data breach exposed 8,234,193 accounts from teespring.com in April 2020. The data taken includes names, email addresses, social media profiles and geographic locations.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 25 Jun 2021, 15 months later. It is the 144th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Teespring’s breach included 4 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Social media profiles | A way to reach you with scams. |
| 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, Teespring among them, without showing the data.
- Distrust messages that mention Teespring.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
- Expect the data to resurface.Breach data is sold and combined with other leaks for years. Stay wary of messages that know a little too much about you.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 15 months 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:
- Wattpad, June 2020, 269 million accounts
- Mathway, January 2020, 26 million accounts
- Covve, February 2020, 23 million accounts
- Wishbone (2020), January 2020, 9.7 million accounts
- Chatbooks, March 2020, 2.5 million accounts
- Pixlr, October 2020, 1.9 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Teespring”, Have I Been Pwned, added 25 Jun 2021. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- teespring.com, Teespring’s website