MyRecon OSINT
Burger King Russia
On 25 August 2024, Burger King Russia was breached. 3,155,792 accounts were exposed, including dates of birth, email addresses, genders. MyRecon rates it 61/100 — severe. That is about 12% of the population of Australia.
What happened
In October 2024, news of a data breach exposing Burger King Russia customers broke following an August attack on the Mindbox marketing automation platform. The breach exposed 3.2M unique email addresses along with names, genders, dates of birth, phone numbers and approximate geolocations, with the data spanning 2018 to August 2024. Burger King Russia acknowledged the incident and advised it did not include payment or passport details.
Breach description from Have I Been Pwned, used under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
Who was behind it
No party has been publicly confirmed as responsible, and this page will not name one. Most breaches are never formally attributed: data surfaces on a forum or inside a combined dump long after the intrusion, and the trail back to a specific actor is rarely made public. Where a group has claimed responsibility it is usually named in the account above — that claim is theirs, not a finding of ours.
What was exposed, and why it matters
- Dates of birthOne of the three things call centres ask to verify identity, and it never changes.
- Email addressesThe address becomes a confirmed, active target — expect more phishing, better aimed.
- GendersSmall on its own; useful to anyone assembling a fuller profile.
- Geographic locationsWhere the account was used, which narrows a person down further than most people expect.
- NamesTurns an anonymous address into an identified person, which is what makes targeted phishing possible.
- Phone numbersEnables SIM-swap attacks against SMS two-factor codes, and puts the number on scam-call lists indefinitely.
What to do if you were in it
- Move two-factor authentication off SMS and onto an authenticator app, which a SIM swap cannot intercept.
- Expect better-aimed phishing. A message that already knows your name and where you have an account is the whole point of a breach like this.
Questions people ask about this breach
Was my email address in the Burger King Russia breach?
Enter it in the box at the top of this page. MyRecon checks it against this breach and every other one on record, and the address is never stored.
What data was leaked in the Burger King Russia breach?
dates of birth, email addresses, genders, geographic locations, names, phone numbers. Each one is explained above, along with what it means for the person it belongs to.
When did it happen, and when did it become public?
The breach is dated 25 August 2024. It was published to Have I Been Pwned on 21 September 2026, a gap of 758 days during which the data was already out.
Is the Burger King Russia breach real?
Yes. Have I Been Pwned lists it as verified, meaning the data was checked against the source rather than taken on trust.
How many people were affected?
3,155,792 accounts. That is about 12% of the population of Australia. That is accounts rather than people — one person often has several.
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Three kinds of content appear on this page and they are kept apart deliberately. The breach description is quoted from Have I Been Pwned under its licence. The severity score, the field-by-field explanation and the advice are computed from the record itself — every sentence derives from a number or a flag in it, which is what stops the analysis drifting from the evidence. Anything under the "MyRecon's take" byline is editorial: our reading of this breach, presented as opinion rather than as a finding.