medium severity March 08, 2024 · 3 min read

HuntStand Data Breach (2024)

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

In March 2024, millions of records scraped from the hunting and land management service HuntStand were publicly posted to a popular hacking forum. The data included 2.8M unique email addresses with many records also containing name, date of birth and country.

On March 8, 2024, 2.8 million HuntStand users learned that their personal information had been scraped and published on a popular hacking forum. The outdoor hunting and land-management application, used by hunters to track property lines, deer movements, and seasonal patterns, had exposed names, email addresses, dates of birth, and geographic locations for millions of accounts.

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Reported Details from the Breach

The primary disclosure on Have I Been Pwned states that the dataset contains 2.8 million unique email addresses. Many records also include full names, dates of birth, and country-level geographic locations. The notification does not specify exactly how the data was obtained or whether the scraping resulted from a vulnerability, misconfigured database, or compromised credentials. No ransom demand or extortion letter is mentioned, and the listing does not detail any internal HuntStand systems that were accessed. The breach was first indexed on March 8, 2024, making it a relatively recent addition to public breach repositories.

Why This Matters for You and Your Family

If you or anyone in your household has ever used HuntStand to mark hunting spots, share property boundaries, or log trail-camera photos, your name, email, birthdate, and general location are now available to anyone who downloads the dataset. That combination allows attackers to build targeted profiles quickly. A date of birth and name can help reset passwords on other accounts; an email address becomes the starting point for phishing campaigns that reference your hunting activity to seem legitimate. For families, the exposure can reach teenagers or spouses who share the same HuntStand login or household email domain.

Geographic locations tied to hunting land add another layer of physical risk. Someone with that information knows where your family spends time in remote areas during hunting season. The breach therefore moves beyond simple spam and into tangible safety concerns for you and your family.

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Sample resultyou@email.comIllustrative — not a real person

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value redacted in this sampleage, relatives, address historySpokeo

value redacted in this samplephone, household, property recordsBeenVerified

value redacted in this sample582 companies checked

Found in breach recordsverifiedreported — unverified

Each record is labeled: confirmed breach data, or an attacker’s claim no one has verified.

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unverifiedvalue redacted in this sampleclaimed in ransomware listing · 2026leak-site claim

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Report details & sourcing

Severity Medium contact details only, none of them permanent

Disclosed March 08, 2024

Last reviewed July 22, 2026

Affected 2.8M

Data exposed Dates of birthEmail addressesGeographic locationsNames

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