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Advance Auto Parts data breach

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A breach of Advance Auto Parts was added to Have I Been Pwned’s breach database on 24 June 2024. It affected 79,243,727 accounts. Exposed: Email addresses, Phone numbers, Names and Addresses. The breach began on 5 June 2024, 19 days before it was reported.

If Advance Auto Parts had your data

  1. Look for Advance Auto Parts’s own notice or letter: it should say what of yours was involved. Keep it.
  2. Expect scams that use your details: calls, texts or emails pretending to be Advance Auto Parts, your bank or the police. Never give codes or passwords, never approve a sign-in you did not start, never move money.

One email to confirm first. We use your address only for this alert, and one click deletes it.

Earlier breaches at Advance Auto Parts

From the official registers’ and Have I Been Pwned’s full histories. A name match: check the notice to be sure it is the same company.

  1. California Attorney General · began 7 March 2016
  2. Washington Attorney General · 544 Washington residents

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