GoldSilver
Disclosed Dec 19, 20187 years ago3,465 affectedConfirmed
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 affected | 3,465 (as reported by the organization) |
|---|---|
| Disclosed | Dec 19, 2018 |
| Discovered | Nov 20, 2018 |
| Happened | Oct 21, 2018 |
| Attack | Not stated |
| Data exposed | Financial, Emails, IP addresses, Names, Payment cards, Government IDs, Phone numbers, Addresses, Credentials and tokens |
| Sector | Tech · US |
| Status | Confirmed |
| Check your email | Have I Been Pwned |
Sources
| Source | |
|---|---|
| Have I Been Pwned: GoldSilverhaveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator | Aggregator |
| Maine Attorney General breach notice archive: GoldSilvermaine.gov · Official notice | Official notice |
Notices filed
| Where | Filed | People |
|---|---|---|
| Maine AGresidents of ME | Dec 19, 2018 | 19 |
| Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the data | Dec 27, 2018 | 242,715 |
History of this record
- 2026-09-25 · source_type: aggregator to official · backfill source
- 2026-09-25 · source_url: 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.xlsx · backfill source
- 2026-09-25 · status: disclosed to confirmed · backfill source
- 2026-09-25 · verified_by: empty to me-ag · backfill source
- 2026-09-25 · verified: 0 to 1 · backfill source
- 2026-09-25 · country: empty to US · backfill source
- 2026-09-25 · records_basis: hibp to organization · backfill source
- 2026-09-25 · records: 242715 to 3465 · backfill source
- 2026-09-25 · disclosed: 2018-12-27 to 2018-12-19 · backfill source
- 2026-09-25 · discovered: empty to 2018-11-20 · backfill source
- 2026-09-25 · added · backfill source
First seen 2026-09-25 (Have I Been Pwned), confirmed by Maine AG. Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.