Vultr data breach: 187K accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2025-11-20
In March 2023, the "AI-first global cloud platform" Vultr disclosed a security incident at a third-party vendor. Dating back to the previous year, the incident was attributed to the ActiveCampaign email marketing service provider and resulted in the exposure of 188k unique email addresses. A small number of records also included name, IP address and country of origin. No Vultr systems or additional customer data were impacted. Vultr subsequently self-submitted the impacted data to HIBP. Exposed data: email addresses, geographic locations, ip addresses, names. The breach dates from Jul 8, 2022; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 20, 2025.
What to do
- If you had a Vultr account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
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