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Young Living Essential Oils data breach

From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the December 2024 breach of Young Living Essential Oils. For every breach, see Breaches.

The Young Living Essential Oils data breach exposed 1,128,951 accounts from youngliving.com in December 2024. The data taken includes dates of birth, names, email addresses and geographic locations.[1]

Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 19 Dec 2024, within a month. It is the 400th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.

What was exposed

Young Living Essential Oils’s breach included 4 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:

DataWhat it’s used for
Dates of birthUsed to prove who you are to banks and phone companies.
NamesMakes scam messages personal enough to believe.
Email addressesExpect scam emails that name the company to look genuine.
Geographic locationsRoughly where you live.

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, Young Living Essential Oils among them, without showing the data.
  2. Distrust messages that mention Young Living Essential Oils.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, within a month.

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. “Young Living Essential Oils”, Have I Been Pwned, added 19 Dec 2024. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.