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Mathway

Disclosed May 22, 202025,692,862 accountsConfirmed

Official notice

In January 2020, the math solving website Mathway suffered a data breach that exposed over 25M records . The data was subsequently sold on a dark web marketplace and included names, Google and Facebook IDs, email addresses and salted password hashes.

What is known

People affected25,692,862 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedMay 22, 2020
DiscoveredMay 15, 2020
HappenedJan 13, 2020
AttackHacking
Data exposedNamesEmailsPasswords
SectorTech · US
StatusConfirmed
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Notices filed

History of this record
hibp2026-09-25
empty to Mathwayby backfillSource
sector2026-09-25
other to techby backfillSource
data_types2026-09-25
["names"] to ["names","emails","passwords"]by backfillSource
records_basis2026-09-25
empty to hibpby backfillSource
records2026-09-25
empty to 25692862by backfillSource
occurred2026-09-25
empty to 2020-01-13by backfillSource
summary2026-09-25
empty to In January 2020, the math solving website Mathway suffered a data breach that exposed over 25M records . The data was subsequently sold on a dark web marketplace and included names, Google and Facebook IDs, email addresses and salted passwoby backfillSource
data_types2026-09-25
[] to ["names"]by backfillSource
attack2026-09-25
unknown to hackingby backfillSource
discovered2026-09-25
empty to 2020-05-15by backfillSource
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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