Altenen data breach: 1.3M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2024-11-05
In June 2022, the malicious "carding" (referring to credit card fraud) website Altenen suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 1.3M unique email addresses, usernames, bcrypt password hashes and cryptocurrency wallet addresses. Exposed data: cryptocurrency wallet addresses, email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jun 24, 2022; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 5, 2024.
What to do
- If you had a Altenen 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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