🐝 Bitly

27.8M total records 14M unique accounts

About this breach

In May 2014, the company announced Bitly to reduce and monetize links that it suffered from data leakage. The published data contained 9.3 million unique email addresses, as well as users' names and hashed SHA1 passwords. In rare cases, the Bcrypt algorithm was used.

Compromised Data

This breach exposed the following types of personal information:

📩

14M

100% of accounts

👤

Nick

9.3M

66.5% of accounts

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Password

4.4M

31.6% of accounts

Total data points: 27.8M

Unique accounts affected: 14M

🔐 What should I do?

Change your password immediately if you had an account
Enable two-factor authentication where possible
Monitor your accounts for suspicious activity
Be aware of potential phishing attempts

📊 Data Classes

📩 Email 👤 Nick 🔑 Password

API Access

Get information about this breach programmatically:

GET https://data-wells.niamonx.io/api/breach/Bitly