Public breachBreachXposedOrNot· 1 Feb 2014
Kickstarter
Domain: kickstarter.com
What happened
Kickstarter, a popular crowdfunding platform, suffered a data breach in 2014 where personal information of over 5.2 million users was exposed, including email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords. The company took measures to notify users, reset all users' passwords as a precautionary measure and secure the platform to prevent further breaches.
Breach facts
- Records exposed
- 5,177,453
- Sensitive
- No
- Industry
- Non-Profit/Charities
- Data exposed
- Email addressesPasswords
This page summarises publicly reported breach metadata for awareness. For account recovery or incident response, use the official guidance from the affected service.
Breach data provided by XposedOrNot.