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Have Fun Teaching (havefunteaching.com) suffered a data breach in 2021 that exposed around 27,126 accounts. If you had an account, some of your personal data may be circulating in leaked databases. The fastest way to know is to check your own email — free, in about 30 seconds, no password required.
What happened
In August 2021, the teaching resources website Have Fun Teaching suffered a data breach that leaked 80k WooCommerce transactions which were later posted to a popular hacking forum. The data contained 27k unique email addresses along with physical and IP addresses, names, payment methods and the item purchased. Have Fun Teaching is aware of the incident.
Breach record from Have I Been Pwned, CC BY 4.0. Risk analysis by Nullivo.
What was exposed, and why it matters
Not all breaches carry the same risk — what matters is which fields leaked. Here is what the Have Fun Teaching breach exposed and what each item actually enables:
Also listed in this breach: Browser user agent details, Email addresses, IP addresses, Names, Payment methods, Physical addresses, Purchases.
What to do if you were affected
These steps are ordered for this specific breach — the most urgent action given what leaked comes first.
- Payment or bank details
Contact your bank, ask them to monitor or reissue the card, and check statements for small “test” transactions. - Home addresses
Get your address removed from data brokers — they re-list roughly every four months, so this needs repeating. - Names and usernames
Search your usual username to see what else it exposes, and use distinct handles for sensitive accounts. - Email addresses
Treat any message referencing this service with suspicion, and never act on links in unexpected emails. - IP addresses
No direct action needed, but be wary of anyone quoting your location as “proof” of identity. - Confirm you were actually in it
Run a free scan before you spend time on the steps above.
This breach put your details on data-broker sites
Because Have Fun Teaching exposed home addresses, this is one of the breaches that feeds people-search and data-broker sites. Those sites scrape leaked databases, combine them with public records, and republish the result as a searchable profile — which is how a single breach turns into a permanent public listing. Removal works, but brokers typically re-list within about four months, so it has to be repeated.
See our broker-by-broker removal guides →
How urgent is this now?
This data has been circulating for around 5 years, which means it has been copied, combined with other leaks and indexed by search tools many times over.
Remember: a breach can’t be “un-leaked” — once a database is out, it exists in countless copies. The goal is to make the leaked data useless: change what can be changed, lock down what can’t, and remove what has been republished.
Frequently asked questions
What data was exposed in the Have Fun Teaching breach?
The Have Fun Teaching breach exposed payment or bank details, home addresses, names and usernames, email addresses, ip addresses. Direct financial fraud, plus convincing scam calls that quote your real card or account details to establish trust.
How many people were affected by the Have Fun Teaching breach?
Around 27,126 accounts were exposed, making it a smaller, more targeted breach.
What should I do if I had a Have Fun Teaching account?
Contact your bank, ask them to monitor or reissue the card, and check statements for small “test” transactions. You can check whether your own email appears in this breach with a free Nullivo scan — no password required.
Breaches that exposed similar data
If the Have Fun Teaching breach affected you, these breaches exposed comparable information — worth checking too, since leaked datasets are routinely combined.