Appartoo Data Breach

What happened?

In March 2017, the French Flatsharing site known as Appartoo suffered a data breach. The incident exposed an extensive amount of personal information on almost 50k members including email addresses, genders, ages, private messages sent between users of the service and passwords stored as SHA-256 hashes. Appartoo advised that all subscribers were notified of the incident in early 2017.

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is March 25, 2017. The record was added to the catalogue on May 2, 2019 and last updated there on May 2, 2019.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Ages
• Auth tokens
• Email addresses
• Employment statuses
• Genders
• IP addresses
• Marital statuses
• Names
• Passwords
• Physical addresses
• Private messages
• Social media profiles

These are incident-level categories. The record does not prove that every category was exposed for every affected person.

Who may be affected?

This record may be relevant to people who had an account or other relationship with Appartoo or used appartoo.com around March 25, 2017. A catalogue entry does not establish that every customer was affected or that every listed data category applied to each person. Compare the record with an official notice addressed to you.

What should you do?

Choose actions that match the information involved. If you find signs that someone is using your identity, the Federal Trade Commission provides a personal recovery plan at IdentityTheft.gov.