Amart Furniture data breach: 108K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-05-25
In May 2022, the Australian retailer Amart Furniture advised that their warranty claims database hosted on Amazon Web Services had been the target of a cyber attack. Over 100k records containing email and physical address, names, phone numbers and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes were exposed and shared online by the attacker. Exposed data: email addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses. The breach dates from May 16, 2022; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on May 25, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a Amart Furniture 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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