000webhost data breach: 14.9M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2015-10-26
In approximately March 2015, the free web hosting provider 000webhost suffered a major data breach that exposed almost 15 million customer records. The data was sold and traded before 000webhost was alerted in October. The breach included names, email addresses and plain text passwords. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, names, passwords. The breach dates from Mar 1, 2015; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Oct 26, 2015.
What to do
- If you had a 000webhost account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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