Timehop Breach Impacts Personal Data of 21 Million Users

The personal data of millions of Timehop customers has been compromised after a hacker gained access to its cloud-based backend computing environment.

Timehop, a service that plugs into users’ social media platforms and shows them memories from the past, disclosed the data breach on Sunday.  The company said that last week on July 4, a data breach resulted in hackers swiping the names, email addresses and phone numbers of millions of customers. The hackers also stole social media “access tokens,” provided to Timehop by social media services, for up to 21 million customers.

“We have no evidence that the data has been used,” Timehop said in a statement about the breach. “All the access keys have been de-authorized and cannot be used. Timehop has retained the services of a well established cyber threat intelligence company that has been seeking evidence of use of the email addresses, phone numbers, and names of users, and while none have appeared to date, it is a high likelihood that they soon will appear in forums and be included in lists that circulate on the Internet and the Dark Web.”