Animoto data breach: 22.4M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-07-18
In July 2018, the cloud-based video making service Animoto suffered a data breach. The breach exposed 22 million unique email addresses alongside names, dates of birth, country of origin and salted password hashes. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, geographic locations, names, passwords. The breach dates from Jul 10, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 18, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a Animoto 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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