Bitly
Transparency
Breakdown
| Subprocessor list | not found | 0 / 30 |
| Processing locations | no list | 0 / 8 |
| Purposes | no list | 0 / 7 |
| Data processing addendum | not found | 0 / 12 |
| Trust center | 8 / 8 | |
| Privacy policy | 6 / 6 | |
| security.txt | 6 / 6 | |
| Security page | not found | 0 / 5 |
| Status page | 5 / 5 | |
| Vulnerability disclosure | not found | 0 / 5 |
| Pages still reachable | 8 / 8 | |
| Total | 33 / 100 |
Only documents we can retrieve count: a page behind a login or a broken link scores nothing.
Badge
For Bitly's own site; it updates with the rating.
<a href="https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/bitly"><img src="https://thirdpartyindex.com/badge/bitly.svg" alt="Bitly transparency rating on Third Party Index" height="20"></a>[](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/bitly)No tracked subprocessors.
Documents
| Document | Verified | Changed | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trust center | snapshot | ||
| Privacy policy | snapshot | ||
| Terms | snapshot | ||
| security.txt | snapshot | ||
| Status page statuspage | snapshot |
Subprocessors
None extracted.
Listed as a subprocessor by (1)
Purposes as each company states them.
BrightLocal brightlocal.com URL shortening service
Security record
What public security catalogs list for Bitly, in their words.
Data breaches
- Bitly 9,313,136 accounts Email addresses; Passwords; Usernames
In May 2014, the link management company Bitly announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained over 9.3 million unique email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords, most using SHA1 with a small number using bcrypt.
Have I Been Pwned · evidence
Breach data from Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0), which calls every entry a breach, including data scraped from public pages.
Service status
0 incidents in the last 90 days
| Began | Incident | Impact | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Major Service Outage - Bitly.com Website Unavailable | critical | 6 min evidence | |
| Partial Outage Impacting Pricing and Packaging | none | 37 min evidence | |
| Intermittent Provider Issues | minor | 7 days evidence | |
| Sporadic Login Issues with Support Portal | major | 1 h 21 min evidence |
As Bitly's status page reports its own incidents (scheduled maintenance left out), read every few hours since .
Federal contracts
By funding agency. UEI ZFVSAC2WZP54 · checked Sep 27, 2026 · snapshot
| Agency | Prime awards | Obligated | Subawards | Subaward total | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smithsonian Institution | 3 | $61.5K | — | — | 2024–2026 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 1 | $23.9K | — | — | 2024–2025 |
| Department of State | 1 | $12.5K | — | — | 2024 |
Prime awards and subawards reported by prime contractors. Purchases through a reseller name the reseller, not the vendor.
Changes
None since tracking began.