Animal Jam data breach: 7.1M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-11-12
In October 2020, the online game for kids Animal Jam suffered a data breach which was subsequently shared through online hacking communities the following month. The data contained 46 million user accounts with over 7 million unique email addresses. Impacted data also included usernames, IP addresses and for some records, dates of birth (sometimes in partial form), physical addresses, parent names and passwords stored as PBKDF2 hashes. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, ip addresses, names, passwords, physical addresses, usernames. The breach dates from Oct 12, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 12, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Animal Jam 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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