123RF data breach: 8.7M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-11-15
In March 2020, the stock photo site 123RF suffered a data breach which impacted over 8 million subscribers and was subsequently sold online. The breach included email, IP and physical addresses, names, phone numbers and passwords stored as MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, usernames. The breach dates from Mar 22, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 15, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a 123RF 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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