APK.TW data breach: 2.5M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2024-03-09
In September 2022, the Taiwanese Android forum APK.TW suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 2.5M unique email addresses along with IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 password hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Sep 3, 2022; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 9, 2024.
What to do
- If you had a APK.TW 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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