Breach date: 2015-02-26. Added to this index: 2015-04-11. Accounts affected: about 139K. Domain: starnet.md.
What happened
In February 2015, the Moldavian ISP "StarNet" had it's database published online. The dump included nearly 140k email addresses, many with personal details including contact information, usage patterns of the ISP and even passport numbers.
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
Customer interactions: A company's log of your contact with it: dates of calls, chats and emails, the channel you used, what each contact was about, and sometimes marketing email clicks and store visits.
Dates of birth: Your full birth date, day, month and year, collected at signup for age checks, identity verification, insurance quotes, birthday offers or government services.
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.
Genders: The gender or sex recorded on your profile, usually picked from a list at signup, sometimes with a title such as Mr or Ms or a gender identity option beyond male and female.
IP addresses: The network addresses your devices used when you signed up, logged in or posted, recorded by almost every website in its access logs.
MAC addresses: A hardware identifier assigned to a device's network adapter, such as the Wi-Fi or Ethernet chip in a phone, laptop, router or smart home device.
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.
Passport numbers: The unique number printed on your passport, often stored with your full name, nationality, date of birth and expiry date by airlines, hotels, travel agents, exchanges and identity verification services.
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.
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 StarNet breach?
The StarNet breach exposed Customer interactions, Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, IP addresses, MAC addresses, Names, Passport numbers, Passwords, Phone numbers. About 139K accounts were affected.
Was I affected by the StarNet 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 StarNet 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.