Was I in the YouNow breach?
YouNow is a live broadcasting service. Its breach happened in February 2019 and exposed 18,241,518 accounts. It included email addresses, IP addresses (where you connected from), names and social media profiles and 1 other kind of detail. If you had an account there by February 2019, 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 February 2019, someone offered data from the live streaming service YouNow for sale on an underground marketplace. It is unclear when the breach itself took place. The data held email addresses, names, IP addresses, usernames and social media profile links. Users sign in through social media accounts, so no passwords were exposed.
- Organisation
- YouNow, a live broadcasting service (younow.com)
- When it happened
- February 2019
- Added to monitored breach databases
- 18 July 2019
- Accounts in the data
- 18,241,518
- What was exposed
- email addresses, IP addresses (where you connected from), names, social media profiles and usernames
The breach record cites a public report on techcrunch.com.
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 detailsIP addresses (where you connected from), names, social media profiles 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. 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.
Is my address in it?
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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
- CISA: Recognize and report phishingRead 14 October 2026
- Get Cyber Safe (Government of Canada): Fact sheet on phishingRead 14 October 2026