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CoinMarketCap

Disclosed Oct 22, 20213,117,548 accountsUnverified

During October 2021, 3.1 million email addresses with accounts on the cryptocurrency market capitalisation website CoinMarketCap were discovered being traded on hacking forums. Whilst the email addresses were found to correlate with CoinMarketCap accounts, it's unclear precisely how they were obtained. CoinMarketCap has provided the following statement on the data: "CoinMarketCap has become aware that batches of data have shown up online purporting to be a list of user accounts. While the data lists we have seen are only email addresses (no passwords), we have found a correlation with our subs

What is known

People affected3,117,548 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedOct 22, 2021
HappenedOct 12, 2021
AttackHacking
Data exposedEmails
SectorTech
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
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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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