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We Heart It

Disclosed Oct 14, 20178,600,635 accountsUnverified

In November 2013, the image-based social network We Heart It suffered a data breach . The incident wasn't discovered until October 2017 when 8.6 million user records were sent to HIBP. The data contained user names, email addresses and password hashes, 80% of which were salted SHA-256 with the remainder being MD5 with no salt.

What is known

People affected8,600,635 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedOct 14, 2017
HappenedNov 3, 2013
AttackNot stated
Data exposedEmailsPasswords
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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