Was I in the Snapchat breach?
Snapchat is a photo and video messaging app. Its breach happened in January 2014 and exposed 4,609,615 accounts. It included phone numbers, general locations and usernames. If you had an account there by January 2014, check your address below to see whether it is one of them.
Breach record last updated . Steps read from the government pages at the foot of this page.
What happened?
In January 2014 attackers fed a vast list of phone numbers into the app's API to work out which account each belonged to. This came a week after the service's weaknesses had been published. The result linked usernames, often reused on other sites, to phone numbers that users normally keep private.
- Organisation
- Snapchat, a photo and video messaging app (snapchat.com)
- When it happened
- January 2014
- Added to monitored breach databases
- 2 January 2014
- Accounts in the data
- 4,609,615
- What was exposed
- phone numbers, general locations and usernames
What was exposed, and what does it mean for me?
- Your phone numberphone numbers
Expect texts and calls that use your real details to sound genuine. A phone number is also what a fraudster needs to try to move your service to their own SIM card.
- Other detailsgeneral locations and usernames
On their own these carry less risk, but they make a scam message sound more personal.
What should I do now?
In this order, for what this breach exposed.
1. Protect your phone number
- Ask your mobile carrier to put a PIN or passcode on your account, and ask whether it offers a lock on SIM changes and number transfers.
- Treat texts about deliveries, accounts or payments with care. Do not tap the link: contact the company on a number you already have.
Is my address in it?
Enter your email address. We check that one address against monitored breach databases and show which breaches list it and what each exposed.
No account needed. We keep the address you check, when, and how many breach records it was found in, to prevent abuse, until you ask us to delete it. Privacy
Where does this come from?
- The breach record in monitored breach databases: dates, account count and what was exposed. What happened is in our own words.Read 14 October 2026
- Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre: Phishing, including text messagesRead 14 October 2026