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LivingSocial

Disclosed Apr 26, 201313 years ago50,000,000 affectedConfirmed

Official notice

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 affected50,000,000 (as reported by the organization)
DisclosedApr 26, 2013
HappenedApr 5, 2013
AttackHacking
Data exposedNames, Emails, Dates of birth, Passwords
SectorRetail · US
StatusConfirmed

Sources

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
California AGresidents of CAApr 26, 2013
ResearchtotalApr 26, 201350,000,000
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.

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