Data breaches → Weee
Was your data in the Weee breach?
2022 · sayweee.com · ~1,117,405 accounts exposedHigh severity · 7/10
Weee (sayweee.com) suffered a data breach in 2022 that exposed around 1,117,405 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 February 2023, data belonging to the Asian and Hispanic food delivery service Weee appeared on a popular hacking forum. Dating back to mid-2022, the data included 1.1M unique email addresses from 11M rows of orders containing names, phone numbers and delivery instructions.
Breach details sourced from Have I Been Pwned, the industry-standard breach database. 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 Weee breach exposed and what each item actually enables:
Enables SIM-swap attacks (hijacking your number to intercept SMS codes), smishing, and voice scams that appear to come from your bank.
Links this leak to your other accounts — a reused username lets anyone build a profile of you across platforms.
Puts you on spam and phishing lists, and confirms to attackers that you hold an account with this service — which makes impersonation emails more believable.
Also listed in this breach: Delivery instructions, Email addresses, Names, Phone numbers, 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.
- Phone numbers: Move two-factor authentication off SMS to an authenticator app or passkey, and add a port-out PIN with your mobile provider.
- 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.
- Check whether your own email appears in this breach — run a free scan to confirm before you spend time on the steps above.
How urgent is this now?
This data has been circulating for around 4 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 Weee breach?
The Weee breach exposed phone numbers, names and usernames, email addresses. Enables SIM-swap attacks (hijacking your number to intercept SMS codes), smishing, and voice scams that appear to come from your bank.
How many people were affected by the Weee breach?
Around 1,117,405 accounts were exposed, making it a large breach.
What should I do if I had a Weee account?
Move two-factor authentication off SMS to an authenticator app or passkey, and add a port-out PIN with your mobile provider. 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 Weee breach affected you, these breaches exposed comparable information — worth checking too, since leaked datasets are routinely combined.
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