The CafeMom Breach Contains Exactly 2,628,183 Emails and Passwords

HEROIC analysts logged the 2014 breach of CafeMom, an online social network for mothers. The incident, dated April 10, 2014, surfaced publicly years later alongside several other historical breaches, including Kickstarter, Bitly, and Disqus. It exposed 2,628,183 records containing email addresses and passwords stored in plaintext.

Why the CafeMom Breach Is Dangerous

Plaintext passwords need no cracking at all. Anyone who obtains this data can read the password sitting next to each email address and use it immediately, either on the original CafeMom account or on any other account protected by the same password.

What Was Exposed in the CafeMom Breach

• Email addresses
• Plaintext passwords

Why the CafeMom Breach Matters

CafeMom is a community built around parenting, family life, and often shared household accounts. A reused password exposed here can lead to credential stuffing against email, banking, or other family-related accounts, opening the door to account takeover and identity theft that can affect more than just the individual user.

How the CafeMom Data Was Exposed

This is a database breach. An attacker gained direct access to CafeMom's backend systems and exported the full user table rather than compromising accounts one at a time. Breaches like this often resurface years later, as this one did, when they are bundled together with other historical breach data and recirculated as a single, larger collection.

Check If You Were Affected by the CafeMom Breach

If you ever had a CafeMom account, check whether your email address appears in this exposure. HEROIC's free breach scanner searches more than 400 billion leaked records, including this one, so you can see your exposure and change any reused passwords.