If Your Email Is in the Lookiero Leak, Your Identity Is at Risk

HEROIC found the Lookiero Database breach dated March 2024, exposing 4,985,787 records including email addresses, first names, last names, and phone numbers from Lookiero, a UK-based online personal styling service with customers across Europe.

Why the Lookiero Breach Is Dangerous

With nearly 5 million customer profiles now available on a hacking forum, criminals have a ready-made dataset for identity fraud, targeted phishing, and account takeover attacks. Full names paired with email addresses and phone numbers give attackers everything needed to impersonate victims, bypass identity verification, or execute SIM swap attacks to hijack phone-based authentication on banking and email accounts.

What Was Exposed in the Lookiero Leak

• Email addresses
• First names
• Last names
• Phone numbers

Why This Lookiero Data Puts You at Risk

Even without passwords, this leak is dangerous. Criminals use real names and phone numbers to contact victims while impersonating banks, delivery services, or government agencies. Your email combined with your full name makes you a prime target for spear-phishing. Phone numbers also enable SIM swap attacks that strip multi-factor authentication from your most sensitive accounts, opening the door to identity theft and financial fraud.

How Database Breaches Work

Database breaches occur when attackers exploit vulnerabilities such as SQL injection or misconfigured servers to extract user records directly from a site's backend database. Once inside, they can download millions of records in minutes. The stolen data is then packaged and sold or shared across criminal forums and dark web marketplaces.

Check If Your Data Was Exposed

HEROIC operates one of the world's largest breach databases, covering more than 400 billion leaked records. Use HEROIC's free breach scanner to check if your email address or credentials appeared in the Lookiero leak or thousands of other breaches in our database.