Guns.com Data Breach

What happened?

In January 2021, the firearms website guns.com suffered a data breach . The breach exposed 376k unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, physical addresses, gun purchases, partial credit card data, dates of birth and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is January 12, 2021. The record was added to the catalogue on January 13, 2022 and last updated there on January 13, 2022.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Dates of birth
• Email addresses
• Names
• Partial credit card data
• Passwords
• Phone numbers
• Physical addresses
• Purchases

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 Guns.com or used guns.com around January 12, 2021. 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.