Data breach · April 2020

Was I in the Teespring breach?

Teespring is a custom printed clothing website. Its breach happened in April 2020 and exposed 8,234,193 accounts. It included email addresses, general locations, names and social media profiles. If you had an account there by April 2020, 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.

01

What happened?

The site was breached in April 2020, exposing millions of customer records. The data held email addresses, names, locations and social media account IDs.

Organisation
Teespring, a custom printed clothing website (teespring.com)
When it happened
April 2020
Added to monitored breach databases
25 June 2021
Accounts in the data
8,234,193
What was exposed
email addresses, general locations, names and social media profiles

The breach record cites a public report on zdnet.com.

02

What was exposed, and what does it mean for me?

  • Your email addressemail addresses

    Expect messages that look like they come from this service or another one you use, written to get you to click a link or sign in on a fake page.

  • Other detailsgeneral locations, names and social media profiles

    On their own these carry less risk, but they make a scam message sound more personal.

03

What should I do now?

In this order, for what this breach exposed.

1. Expect phishing

  • Be wary of messages that urge you to act fast, ask for personal details, or link to an address that is slightly off.
  • If a message might be genuine, do not use its links or phone numbers. Go to the site by typing its address yourself.
04

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.

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Sources

Where does this come from?

Other breaches from 2020