StarTribune

Disclosed Oct 30, 20202,192,857 accountsUnverified

In October 2019, the Minnesota-based news service StarTribune suffered a data breach which was subsequently sold on the dark web. The breach exposed over 2 million unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, physical addresses, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com .

What is known

People affected	2,192,857 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
Disclosed	Oct 30, 2020
Happened	Oct 10, 2019
Attack	Not stated
Data exposed	Dates of birthEmailsNamesPasswordsAddresses
Sector	Tech
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: StarTribune

Notices filed

Accounts in the dataOct 30, 2020

Have I Been Pwned2,192,857 people

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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