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Retina-X

Disclosed Apr 30, 20179 years ago71,153 accountsUnverified

In February 2017, the mobile device monitoring software developer Retina-X was hacked and customer data downloaded before being wiped from their servers. The incident was covered in the Motherboard article titled Inside the 'Stalkerware' Surveillance Market, Where Ordinary People Tap Each Other's Phones . The service, used to monitor mobile devices, had 71k email addresses and MD5 hashes with no salt exposed. Retina-X disclosed the incident in a blog post on April 27, 2017.

What is known

People affected71,153 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedApr 30, 2017
HappenedFeb 23, 2017
AttackHacking
Data exposedEmails, Passwords
SectorTech
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
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Sources

Source
Have I Been Pwned: Retina-Xhaveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the dataApr 30, 201771,153
History of this record
  • 2026-09-25 · added · backfill source

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

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