low severity October 21, 2018 · 1 min read

GoldSilver Data Breach (2018)

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

In October 2018, the bullion education and dealer services site GoldSilver suffered a data breach that exposed 243k unique email addresses spanning customers and mailing list subscribers. An extensive amount of personal information on customers was obtained including names, addresses, phone numbers, purchases and passwords and answers to security questions stored as MD5 hashes. In a small number of cases, passport, social security numbers and partial credit card data was also exposed. The data breach and source code belonging to GoldSilver was publicly posted on a dark web service where it rem

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Leaked data cannot be deleted from the internet — anyone claiming otherwise is lying. Broker listings can be removed. We do the second, and show you exactly what to fix from the first.

What to do now

Steps that match what this notice says was exposed

Every step below is free and you do it yourself, and none of it depends on GoldSilver.

Freeze your credit — this is the one that matters. A freeze is free, it takes minutes, and it has to be done separately at all three bureaus: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. It stops a new account being opened in your name, which is what a Social Security number in the wrong hands is for. You can lift it temporarily whenever you need credit.
Tell your bank before you do anything else. Account and routing details are the fastest-moving of the fields in this notice. Call the number on the back of your card rather than any number in an email, and ask them to watch the account and reissue the card.
Report the passport number. A compromised passport number can be reported to the US State Department, which will flag it. Replacing it is neither quick nor free, so report it before you need to travel.

One more, whatever was exposed: a breach notice is a favourite disguise for a phishing email. If a message about this arrives, do not use its links — go to the company’s site yourself, or call the number on your statement.

Were you a GoldSilver customer?

GoldSilver is one listing. Your email is probably in others.

243K accounts were exposed here. Check whether yours is one — and find every other leak tied to the same address, in about 15 seconds. No account, no card.

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Severity Low

Disclosed October 21, 2018

Last reviewed July 22, 2026

Affected 243K

Data exposed Bank account numbersEmail addressesIP addressesNamesPartial credit card dataPassport numbersPhone numbersPhysical addresses +3 more

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