Breach date: 2014-02-17. Added to this index: 2014-02-23. Accounts affected: about 38K. Domain: muslimdirectory.co.uk.
What happened
In February 2014, the UK guide to services and business known as the Muslim Directory was attacked by the hacker known as @th3inf1d3l. The data was consequently dumped publicly and included the web accounts of tens of thousands of users which contained data including their names, home address, age group, email, website activity and password in plain text.
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
Age groups: A broad bracket such as 25 to 34 or 65 plus, stored for marketing segmentation rather than identification. It is deliberately less precise than an age or a date of birth.
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.
Employers: The name of the company or organisation you work for, collected by professional networks, job sites, insurers, lenders and many signup forms.
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.
Phone numbers: Your mobile or landline number, collected at signup for contact, delivery updates, marketing and two-factor codes.
Physical addresses: Your residential, postal, billing or delivery address, stored by retailers, utilities, banks, government services and almost any company that sends you something.
Website activity: Records of your actions on a website or app, such as pages viewed, searches, clicks, downloads, logins, cart activity, IP addresses and timestamps.
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 Muslim Directory breach?
The Muslim Directory breach exposed Age groups, Email addresses, Employers, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Website activity. About 38K accounts were affected.
Was I affected by the Muslim Directory 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 Muslim Directory 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.