MyRecon OSINT
Double Counter
On 4 October 2026, Double Counter was breached. 274,922 accounts were exposed, including email addresses, geographic locations, names. MyRecon rates it 39/100, moderate.
The story behind the breach
In October 2026, the Discord server protection service Double Counter suffered a data breach attributed to a vulnerability in the Metabase analytics tool . In its disclosure notice, Double Counter advised that attackers gained access to a subset of its data. A corpus of data was subsequently published publicly and contained 275k unique email addresses and Discord usernames.
A small number of records belonging to paying subscribers whose purchases were processed via Stripe were also present and included names, countries and postcodes.
Breach description from Have I Been Pwned, used under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
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How did it happen?
In October 2026, the Discord server protection service Double Counter suffered a data breach attributed to a vulnerability in the Metabase analytics tool .
What was the motive?
The published account does not establish the motive. We cannot tell what the attackers intended from the exposed data alone.
Reported demands or attempts to sell data describe what happened, rather than prove every attacker's intention.
What was the outcome?
274,922 accounts are listed in this breach. This is a count of accounts, not necessarily individual people.
The reported exposed data includes Email addresses, Geographic locations, Names, Usernames.
What was exposed, and why it matters
- Email addressesThe address becomes a confirmed, active target, expect more phishing, better aimed.
- 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.
- UsernamesA handle links this account to every other place the same handle is used.
What to do if you were in it
- 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 Double Counter breach?
Use the email box on this page. The result applies only to this incident. If the provider does not cover this breach, we say so. A missing match does not prove you were unaffected.
What data was leaked in the Double Counter breach?
email addresses, geographic locations, names, usernames. 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 4 October 2026. It was published to Have I Been Pwned on 7 October 2026, a gap of 3 days during which the data was already out.
Is the Double Counter 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?
274,922 accounts. 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.