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medium severity November 21, 2024 · 3 min read

Yonéma Data Breach (2024)

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

In November 2024, data from the Senegalese payment platform Yonéma was posted to a popular hacking forum. The data included 36k unique email addresses alongside phone numbers, names and what appears to be encrypted passwords and dates of birth.

Yonéma Data Breach (2024)

On November 21, 2024, 36,000 users of the Senegalese payment platform Yonéma learned that their personal data had been posted to a popular hacking forum. The leak includes names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, IP addresses, device information, and what appear to be encrypted passwords.

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Reported Details from the Breach

The primary disclosure on Have I Been Pwned states that the Yonéma data set surfaced in November 2024 and contains records for 36K unique email addresses. The exposed information also includes phone numbers, names, dates of birth, IP addresses, device details, and password data described as encrypted. The listing does not specify the exact attack vector, whether the passwords were hashed or merely obscured, or if any decryption keys were released alongside the archive. No ransom demand amount or negotiation timeline is mentioned in the public record.

Why This Matters for You and Your Family

If you or anyone in your household has used Yonéma for payments or transfers, your contact details and authentication material are now available to criminals. Email addresses and passwords from one service are frequently reused across banking, email, and shopping accounts. Phone numbers and dates of birth allow attackers to strengthen social-engineering attempts or reset credentials on other sites. Device and IP data can help adversaries map your online habits or target you with location-aware scams. Even though the passwords are listed as encrypted, history shows that many “encrypted” credential dumps are later cracked or sold separately.

Doxxing and Identity-Chain Risks

A single leak like this rarely stays isolated. Criminals combine the Yonéma data with other breaches to build detailed profiles. Names, phones, and dates of birth link your real identity to gaming handles, social-media accounts, and family members. Once attackers control one account, they can pivot to others, harvest more data, and eventually dox you or impersonate you for financial fraud. Children’s gaming accounts are especially vulnerable because they often share the same household email or phone number listed in the Yonéma breach, creating a direct path from payment-platform compromise to underage account takeovers.

What to Do

  • Run a DoxxScan to map every link between your handles, emails, phone numbers, and real identity, with cleanup of exposed records.
  • Rotate the password used at Yonéma anywhere it is reused and switch to 2FA through an authenticator app instead of SMS.
  • Enable continuous DoxxScan monitoring across 13.1B+ breach records and 100+ platforms so the next exposure is caught in hours rather than months.
  • Cover the household with DoxxScan family protection that extends to dependents and children’s gaming accounts that chain back to the same address or phone.
  • Let remediation specialists handle takedown requests across data brokers and extortion sites on your behalf.

The Yonéma breach illustrates how quickly payment-platform data can fuel larger identity chains that threaten every member of a household. A forward-looking approach means treating every credential leak as the start of a potential campaign rather than a one-off event. DoxxScan by GalaxyWarden delivers continuous monitoring across 13.1 billion+ breach records and more than 100 platforms, AI-powered identity-chain mapping, and hands-on remediation by specialists, with household coverage that explicitly includes children’s gaming accounts vulnerable to cascading takeovers.

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Sample resultyou@email.comIllustrative — not a real person

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value redacted in this samplephone, household, property recordsBeenVerified
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Found in breach recordsverifiedreported — unverified

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

verifiedvalue redacted in this samplepassword + phone · 2024telecom breach
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 November 21, 2024
Last reviewed July 22, 2026
Affected 36K
Data exposed Dates of birthDevice informationEmail addressesIP addressesNamesPasswordsPhone numbers
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