Patreon

Disclosed Sep 30, 20152,300,000 affectedUnverified

Hackers dump 15GB of data on 2.3 million Patreon users

Patreon's CEO disclosed unauthorized access to its database, and a day later hackers released 15 gigabytes of data on 2.3 million users including usernames, email and shipping addresses. Patreon said no card numbers were taken.

What is known

People affected	2,300,000 (as reported by the organization)
Disclosed	Sep 30, 2015
Happened	Oct 1, 2015
Attack	Hacking
Data exposed	EmailsPasswordsPayment cardsAddressesDates of birthMessagesNames
Sector	Tech · US
Status	Unverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
Check your email	Have I Been Pwned

Sources

Aggregatorhaveibeenpwned.com

Have I Been Pwned: Patreon

Newsweb.archive.org

Hackers Release Data of 2.3 Million Patreon Users - Newsweek

Notices filed

TotalSep 30, 2015

Research2,300,000 people

Accounts in the dataOct 2, 2015

Have I Been Pwned2,330,382 people

History of this record

source_type2026-09-25

aggregator to pressby seedSource

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https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Patreon to https://web.archive.org/web/2016/https://www.newsweek.com/hackers-patreon-data-breach-patreon-dump-patreon-breach-379512by seedSource

country2026-09-25

empty to USby seedSource

data_types2026-09-25

["emails","passwords","payment-card","addresses","dob","messages"] to ["emails","passwords","payment-card","addresses","dob","messages","names"]by seedSource

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hibp to organizationby seedSource

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2330382 to 2300000by seedSource

disclosed2026-09-25

2015-10-02 to 2015-09-30by seedSource

summary2026-09-25

In October 2015, the crowdfunding site Patreon was hacked and over 16GB of data was released publicly. The dump included almost 14GB of database records with more than 2.3M unique email addresses, millions of personal messages and passwords to Patreon's CEO disclosed unauthorized access to its database, and a day later hackers released 15 gigabytes of data on 2.3 million users including usernames, email and shipping addresses. Patreon said no card numbers were taken.by seedSource

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First seen 2026-09-25 (Have I Been Pwned). Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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