Promo Data Breach

What happened?

In July 2020, the self-proclaimed "World's #1 Marketing Video Maker" Promo suffered a data breach which was then shared extensively on a hacking forum. The incident exposed 22 million records containing almost 15 million unique email addresses alongside IP addresses, genders, names and salted SHA-256 password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com .

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is June 22, 2020. The record was added to the catalogue on July 26, 2020 and last updated there on July 26, 2020.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Email addresses
• Genders
• IP addresses
• Names
• Passwords

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 Promo or used promo.com around June 22, 2020. 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.