8fit data breach: 15.0M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-03-21
In July 2018, the health and fitness service 8fit suffered a data breach. The data subsequently appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace in February 2019 and included over 15M unique email addresses alongside names, genders, IP addresses and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: email addresses, genders, geographic locations, ip addresses, names, passwords. The breach dates from Jul 1, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 21, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a 8fit 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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