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CashCrate

Disclosed Apr 20, 20186,844,490 accountsUnverified

In June 2017, news broke that CashCrate had suffered a data breach exposing 6.8 million records . The breach of the cash-for-surveys site dated back to November 2016 and exposed names, physical addresses, email addresses and passwords stored in plain text for older accounts along with weak MD5 hashes for newer ones.

What is known

People affected6,844,490 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedApr 20, 2018
HappenedNov 17, 2016
AttackNot stated
Data exposedEmailsNamesPasswordsAddresses
SectorTech
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
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History of this record
Added2026-09-25
First recordedby backfillSource

First seen 2026-09-25 (Have I Been Pwned). Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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