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Last.fm data breach37.2M accounts compromised on 2012-03-22
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Last.fm (last.fm) was the source of a data breach dated 2012-03-22, exposing 37,217,682 accounts. The details below are mirrored from Have I Been Pwned and reflect the source's account of the incident at the time of publication.
Incident Report
| Target Organization | Last.fm |
|---|---|
| Source Name | Lastfm |
| Domain | last.fm |
| Breach Date | 2012-03-22 |
| Added to HIBP | 2016-09-20 |
| Accounts Compromised | 37,217,682(37.2M) |
| Data Exposed | Email addressesPasswordsUsernamesWebsite activity |
| Status | Verified by HIBP |
Description
In March 2012, the music website Last.fm was hacked and 43 million user accounts were exposed. Whilst Last.fm knew of an incident back in 2012, the scale of the hack was not known until the data was released publicly in September 2016. The breach included 37 million unique email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
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