TrueFire

Disclosed Feb 13, 20208,190 affectedConfirmed

In February 2020, the guitar tuition website TrueFire suffered a data breach which impacted 600k members. The breach exposed extensive personal information including names, email and physical addresses, account balances and unsalted MD5 password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com .

What is known

People affected	8,190 (as reported by the organization)
Disclosed	Feb 13, 2020
Discovered	Jul 28, 2020
Happened	Feb 21, 2020
Attack	Hacking
Data exposed	Dates of birthEmailsNamesPasswordsPhone numbersAddressesPayment cardsFinancial
Sector	Tech · US
Status	Confirmed
Check your email	Have I Been Pwned

Sources

Official noticeoag.ca.gov

California Attorney General breach notice: TrueFire

Official noticeatg.wa.gov

Washington Attorney General breach notice: TrueFire

Official noticejustice.oregon.gov

Oregon DOJ breach notice: TrueFire

Aggregatorhaveibeenpwned.com

Have I Been Pwned: TrueFire

Official noticein.gov

Indiana Attorney General 2020 data breach report: TrueFire

Official noticemaine.gov

Maine Attorney General breach notice archive: TrueFire

Notices filed

Residents of INFeb 13, 2020

Indiana AG75 people

Residents of MEFeb 13, 2020

Maine AG26 people

Residents of CAMar 10, 2020

California AGCount not stated

Accounts in the dataAug 2, 2020

Have I Been Pwned599,667 people

Residents of CAOct 27, 2020

California AGCount not stated

Residents of WAOct 27, 2020

Washington AG2,633 people

Residents of OROct 27, 2020

Oregon DOJ43,377 people

History of this record

data_types2026-09-25

["dob","emails","names","passwords","phone","addresses"] to ["dob","emails","names","passwords","phone","addresses","payment-card","financial"]by backfillSource

records_basis2026-09-25

hibp to organizationby backfillSource

records2026-09-25

599667 to 8190by backfillSource

disclosed2026-09-25

2020-03-10 to 2020-02-13by backfillSource

hibp2026-09-25

empty to TrueFireby backfillSource

sector2026-09-25

other to techby backfillSource

data_types2026-09-25

[] to ["dob","emails","names","passwords","phone","addresses"]by backfillSource

records_basis2026-09-25

empty to hibpby backfillSource

records2026-09-25

empty to 599667by backfillSource

summary2026-09-25

empty to In February 2020, the guitar tuition website TrueFire suffered a data breach which impacted 600k members. The breach exposed extensive personal information including names, email and physical addresses, account balances and unsalted MD5 pasby backfillSource

attack2026-09-25

unknown to hackingby backfillSource

discovered2026-09-25

empty to 2020-07-28by backfillSource

disclosed2026-09-25

2020-10-27 to 2020-03-10by 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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