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START

Disclosed Aug 30, 20227,455,386 accountsUnverified

In August 2022, news broke of an attack against the Russian streaming service "START" . The incident led to the exposure of 44M records containing 7.4M unique email addresses. The impacted data also included the subscriber's country and password hash. START subsequently acknowledged the incident in a Telegram post and stated that the data dated back to 2021.

What is known

People affected7,455,386 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedAug 30, 2022
HappenedJun 1, 2021
AttackNot stated
Data exposedEmailsLocationNamesPasswords
SectorTech
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
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History of this record
Added2026-09-25
First recordedby backfillSource

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

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