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GoldSilver

Disclosed Dec 19, 20183,465 affectedConfirmed

Official notice

In October 2018, the bullion education and dealer services site GoldSilver suffered a data breach that exposed 243k unique email addresses spanning customers and mailing list subscribers. An extensive amount of personal information on customers was obtained including names, addresses, phone numbers, purchases and passwords and answers to security questions stored as MD5 hashes. In a small number of cases, passport, social security numbers and partial credit card data was also exposed. The data breach and source code belonging to GoldSilver was publicly posted on a dark web service where it rem

What is known

People affected3,465 (as reported by the organization)
DisclosedDec 19, 2018
DiscoveredNov 20, 2018
HappenedOct 21, 2018
AttackNot stated
Data exposedFinancialEmailsIP addressesNamesPayment cardsGovernment IDsPhone numbersAddressesCredentials and tokens
SectorTech · US
StatusConfirmed
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Sources

Notices filed

History of this record
source_type2026-09-25
aggregator to officialby backfillSource
source_url2026-09-25
https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/GoldSilver to https://www.maine.gov/ag/sites/maine.gov.ag/files/docs/Data%20breach%20spreadsheet%2012-6-2018%20through%209-14-2020%20REDACTED.xlsxby backfillSource
status2026-09-25
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country2026-09-25
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hibp to organizationby backfillSource
records2026-09-25
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disclosed2026-09-25
2018-12-27 to 2018-12-19by backfillSource
discovered2026-09-25
empty to 2018-11-20by backfillSource
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First recordedby backfillSource

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

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