Data breach
Gawkergawker.com
1 247 574 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2010-12-11.
Breached2010-12-11Added to HIBP2013-12-04 UTCUpdated by HIBP2013-12-04 UTCAccounts1 247 574Domaingawker.com
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
In December 2010, Gawker was attacked by the hacker collective "Gnosis" in retaliation for what was reported to be a feud between Gawker and 4Chan. Information about Gawkers 1.3M users was published along with the data from Gawker's other web presences including Gizmodo and Lifehacker. Due to the prevalence of password reuse, many victims of the breach then had their Twitter accounts compromised to send Acai berry spam.
Exposed data as HIBP classifies it
- Email addresses
- Passwords
- Usernames
How HIBP qualifies it
- HIBP verified that the data came from this service.
Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)
Copied from HIBP 2026-11-05 03:50 UTC