SurveyLama Data Breach

What happened?

In February 2024, the paid survey website SurveyLama suffered a data breach that exposed 4.4M customer email addresses. The incident also exposed names, physical and IP addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and passwords stored as either salted SHA-1, bcrypt or argon2 hashes. When contacted about the incident, SurveyLama advised that they had already "notified the users by email".

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is February 1, 2024. The record was added to the catalogue on April 2, 2024 and last updated there on April 2, 2024.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Dates of birth
• Email addresses
• IP addresses
• Names
• Passwords
• Phone numbers
• Physical addresses

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 SurveyLama or used surveylama.com around February 1, 2024. 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.