2fast4u data breach: 17K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2018-01-07
In December 2017, the Belgian motorcycle forum 2fast4u discovered a data breach of their system. The breach of the vBulletin message board impacted over 17k individual users and exposed email addresses, usersnames and salted MD5 passwords. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Dec 20, 2017; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 7, 2018.
What to do
- If you had a 2fast4u 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.
Sources
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