Vodafone Data Breach

What happened?

In November 2013, Vodafone in Iceland suffered an attack attributed to the Turkish hacker collective "Maxn3y". The data was consequently publicly exposed and included user names, email addresses, social security numbers, SMS message, server logs and passwords from a variety of different internal sources.

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is November 30, 2013. The record was added to the catalogue on November 30, 2013 and last updated there on May 13, 2019.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Credit cards
• Email addresses
• Government issued IDs
• IP addresses
• Names
• Passwords
• Phone numbers
• Physical addresses
• Purchases
• SMS messages
• 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 Vodafone or used vodafone.is around November 30, 2013. 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.