LivingSocial

Disclosed Apr 26, 201350,000,000 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	NamesEmailsDates of birthPasswords
Sector	Retail · US
Status	Confirmed

Sources

Official noticeoag.ca.gov

California Attorney General breach notice: LivingSocial

Newsweb.archive.org

50,000,000 usernames and passwords lost as LivingSocial special offers site hacked

Notices filed

Residents of CAApr 26, 2013

California AGCount not stated

TotalApr 26, 2013

Research50,000,000 people

History of this record

sector2026-09-25

other to retailby seedSource

attack2026-09-25

unknown to hackingby seedSource

data_types2026-09-25

[] to ["names","emails","dob","passwords"]by seedSource

records_basis2026-09-25

empty to organizationby seedSource

records2026-09-25

empty to 50000000by seedSource

summary2026-09-25

empty to LivingSocial emailed its roughly 50 million users to disclose that attackers accessed names, email addresses, some birth dates and salted password hashes.by seedSource

title2026-09-25

empty to Daily deals site LivingSocial breached, 50 million users' data exposedby seedSource

Added2026-09-25

First recordedby backfillSource

First seen 2026-09-25 (California AG), confirmed by California AG. Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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