Breach date: 2016-11-17. Added to this index: 2018-04-20. Accounts affected: about 6.8M. Domain: cashcrate.com.
What happened
In June 2017, news broke that CashCrate had suffered a data breach exposing 6.8 million records. The breach of the cash-for-surveys site dated back to November 2016 and exposed names, physical addresses, email addresses and passwords stored in plain text for older accounts along with weak MD5 hashes for newer ones.
Breach data sourced from Have I Been Pwned, used under CC BY 4.0. Additional breach metadata provided by XposedOrNot. DataExposed is an independent service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by either.
What was exposed
Email addresses: The email address you used to register or log in. It is the most common field in breaches because it doubles as your username on most sites.
Names: Your first name, surname and sometimes middle name or initials, as you gave them when you signed up. It appears in almost every breach because nearly every account asks for it.
Passwords: The secret you use to sign in, stored by the breached service either in plain text, in a scrambled form called a hash, or encrypted. How it was stored decides how quickly it can be recovered.
Physical addresses: Your residential, postal, billing or delivery address, stored by retailers, utilities, banks, government services and almost any company that sends you something.
What to do now
Check whether your own address is in this dataset with the free email breach check.
Change the password on this service and every other site where you used the same password.
Turn on two-factor authentication on your email account first, because it is the reset path for everything else.
Treat calls and messages that quote real details about you as hostile until you verify them another way.
Frequently asked questions
What data was leaked in the CashCrate breach?
The CashCrate breach exposed Email addresses, Names, Passwords, Physical addresses. About 6.8M accounts were affected.
Was I affected by the CashCrate breach?
Run the free email breach check with the address you used on that service. It will tell you whether your address appears in this dataset.
What should I do about the CashCrate breach?
Change the password on that account and everywhere you reused it, then turn on two-factor authentication. Passwords from this breach are traded and tried automatically against other sites.