high severity January 25, 2023 · 3 min read

Eye4Fraud Data Breach (2023)

If you are a customer of Eye4Fraud, here’s what’s now in circulation.

In February 2023, data alleged to have been taken from the fraud protection service Eye4Fraud was listed for sale on a popular hacking forum. Spanning tens of millions of rows with 16M unique email addresses, the data was spread across 147 tables totalling 65GB and included both direct users of the service and what appears to be individuals who'd placed orders on other services that implemented Eye4Fraud to protect their sales. The data included names and bcrypt password hashes for users, and names, phone numbers, physical addresses and partial credit card data (card type and last 4 digits) fo

On January 25, 2023, Eye4Fraud appeared in a major breach notification after data allegedly stolen from the fraud-protection service was listed for sale on a popular hacking forum. The dataset contained information on 16 million unique email addresses and affected both direct customers of Eye4Fraud and individuals who had placed orders on merchant sites that used the company’s anti-fraud tools. If your email is among those 16 million, your name, physical address, phone number, partial credit card details, IP address, and password hash may now be in criminal hands.

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Reported Details from the Disclosure

The primary listing, as documented by Have I Been Pwned, states that the breach occurred in February 2023 and involved 147 database tables totaling roughly 65 GB. Exposed records include email addresses, names, physical addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, bcrypt password hashes, and partial credit card data showing only the card type and last four digits. The disclosure indicates the data set contains both Eye4Fraud’s own user accounts and downstream customer records from merchants who integrated the service. Exact ransom demands and the identity of the initial intruder were not published in the primary notification.

Why This Matters for You and Your Family

When a fraud-protection company is breached, the consequences reach far beyond that single service. The same names, addresses, and phone numbers you provided to make a legitimate purchase are now available to identity thieves who can combine them with the partial card data to attempt account takeovers or new-account fraud. Passwords protected only by bcrypt can still be cracked offline given enough time and computing power, especially if you reused the same password on other sites. For families this means a single breach can expose both parents and children if shared emails or household addresses were used during checkout.

The exposure of IP addresses further allows attackers to correlate your online activity across services, making targeted phishing or SIM-swapping attempts more convincing and more dangerous.

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Report details & sourcing

Severity High includes account details that can be misused directly

Disclosed January 25, 2023

Last reviewed July 22, 2026

Affected 16.0M

Data exposed Email addressesIP addressesNamesPartial credit card dataPasswordsPhone numbersPhysical addresses

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