Liker Data Breach

What happened?

In March 2021, the self-proclaimed "kinder, smarter social network" Liker suffered a data breach, allegedly in retaliation for the Gab data breach and scraping of data from Parler. The site remained offline after the breach which exposed 465k email addresses in addition to names, dates of birth, education levels, private messages, security questions and answers in plain text, passwords stored as bcrypt hashes and other personal data attributes. Liker did not respond when contacted about the breach.

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is March 8, 2021. The record was added to the catalogue on March 13, 2021 and last updated there on March 24, 2021.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Auth tokens
• Dates of birth
• Education levels
• Email addresses
• Geographic locations
• IP addresses
• Names
• Passwords
• Phone numbers
• Private messages
• Security questions and answers
• Social media profiles
• Usernames

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 Liker or used liker.com around March 8, 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.