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BabyNames

In approximately 2008, the site to help parents name their children known as Baby Names suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 846k email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. When contacted in October 2018, Baby Names advised that "the breach happened at least ten years ago" and that members were notified at the time.

  • Domain: babynames.com
  • Breach Count: 846,742
  • Breach Date: Oct. 24, 2008
  • Added: Oct. 24, 2018
  • Verified: True
  • Fabricated: False
  • Events: 0
  • Source: HaveIBeenPwned
  • Data types: Email addresses Passwords

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