Deezer Data Breach

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Music Service Deezer Admits Data Breach via Third Party, Possibly Affecting 200M+ Users

Deezer has informed its users via a post published last month that it has suffered a data breach via a third-party service provider.

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In late 2022, the music streaming service Deezer disclosed a data breach that impacted over 240M customers. The breach dated back to a mid-2019 backup exposed by a 3rd party partner which was subsequently sold and then broadly redistributed on a popular hacking forum. Impacted data included 229M unique email addresses, IP addresses, names, usernames, genders, DoBs and the geographic location of the customer.

Find it weird that I am part of this breach considering Deezer is not even open to Indian users. 240M seems like a very big number for a company like this. It's half of what Spotify has (including free users).

Replies to tweet indicate that I am not alone. Tons of people got the alerts despite not having an account with the company.