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Vultr data breach

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

The Vultr data breach exposed 187,872 accounts from vultr.com in July 2022. The data taken includes names, email addresses, geographic locations and IP addresses.[1]

Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 20 Nov 2025, 3 years later. It is the 552nd largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.

What was exposed

Vultr’s breach included 4 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.
Geographic locationsRoughly where you live.
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, Vultr among them, without showing the data.
  2. Distrust messages that mention Vultr.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
  3. 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, 3 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:

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

References

  1. ^ Troy Hunt. “Vultr”, Have I Been Pwned, added 20 Nov 2025. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.