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Traderie data breach

From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the September 2022 breach of Traderie. For every breach, see Breaches.

The Traderie data breach exposed 364,898 accounts from traderie.com in September 2022. The data taken includes usernames, email addresses, social media profiles and IP addresses.[1]

Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 25 Aug 2024, 23 months later. It is the 507th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.

What was exposed

Traderie’s breach included 4 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:

DataWhat it’s used for
UsernamesHalf of a login. With a reused password, it opens other accounts.
Email addressesExpect scam emails that name the company to look genuine.
Social media profilesA way to reach you with scams.
IP addressesRoughly where you were when you used the service.

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, Traderie among them, without showing the data.
  2. Turn on two-step sign-in.On Traderie (traderie.com) and your email, so leaked sign-in details aren’t enough on their own.
  3. Distrust messages that mention Traderie.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, 23 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:

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

References

  1. ^ Troy Hunt. “Traderie”, Have I Been Pwned, added 25 Aug 2024. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.