LivingSocial
Disclosed Apr 26, 201313 years ago50,000,000 affectedConfirmed
Daily deals site LivingSocial breached, 50 million users' data exposed
LivingSocial emailed its roughly 50 million users to disclose that attackers accessed names, email addresses, some birth dates and salted password hashes.
What is known
| People affected | 50,000,000 (as reported by the organization) |
|---|---|
| Disclosed | Apr 26, 2013 |
| Happened | Apr 5, 2013 |
| Attack | Hacking |
| Data exposed | Names, Emails, Dates of birth, Passwords |
| Sector | Retail · US |
| Status | Confirmed |
Sources
| Source | |
|---|---|
| California Attorney General breach notice: LivingSocialoag.ca.gov · Official notice | Official notice |
| 50,000,000 usernames and passwords lost as LivingSocial special offers site hackedweb.archive.org · News | News |
Notices filed
| Where | Filed | People |
|---|---|---|
| California AGresidents of CA | Apr 26, 2013 | |
| Researchtotal | Apr 26, 2013 | 50,000,000 |
History of this record
- 2026-09-25 · sector: other to retail · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · attack: unknown to hacking · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · data_types: [] to ["names","emails","dob","passwords"] · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · records_basis: empty to organization · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · records: empty to 50000000 · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · summary: empty to LivingSocial emailed its roughly 50 million users to disclose that attackers accessed names, email addresses, some birth dates and salted password hashes. · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · title: empty to Daily deals site LivingSocial breached, 50 million users' data exposed · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · added · backfill source
First seen 2026-09-25 (California AG), confirmed by California AG. Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.