WiredBucks data breach: 918K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2025-06-10
In May 2022, the now defunct social media influencer platform WiredBucks suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The incident exposed over 900k email and IP addresses alongside names, usernames, earnings via the platform, physical addresses and passwords stored as plain text. Exposed data: earnings, email addresses, ip addresses, names, passwords, physical addresses, usernames. The breach dates from May 25, 2022; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jun 10, 2025.
What to do
- If you had a WiredBucks 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.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
Sources
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