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4 609 615 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2014-01-01.

Breached2014-01-01Added to HIBP2014-01-02 UTCUpdated by HIBP2014-01-02 UTCAccounts4 609 615Domainsnapchat.com
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words

In January 2014 just one week after Gibson Security detailed vulnerabilities in the service, Snapchat had 4.6 million usernames and phone number exposed. The attack involved brute force enumeration of a large number of phone numbers against the Snapchat API in what appears to be a response to Snapchat's assertion that such an attack was "theoretical". Consequently, the breach enabled individual usernames (which are often used across other services) to be resolved to phone numbers which users usually wish to keep private.

Exposed data as HIBP classifies it

  • Geographic locations
  • Phone numbers
  • 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