Breach date: 2022-05-25. Added to this index: 2025-06-10. Accounts affected: about 919K. Domain: wiredbucks.com.
What happened
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.
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
Earnings: Your salary, wages, bonuses or other income amounts, usually from payroll systems, accounting software, loan applications, recruitment platforms or gig work apps.
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.
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.
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.
Usernames: The handle or login name you chose for an account, which may be public on forums, games and social platforms or used privately to sign in.
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 WiredBucks breach?
The WiredBucks breach exposed Earnings, Email addresses, IP addresses, Names, Passwords, Physical addresses, Usernames. About 919K accounts were affected.
Was I affected by the WiredBucks 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 WiredBucks 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.