Appartoo data breach: 49K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-05-02
In March 2017, the French Flatsharing site known as Appartoo suffered a data breach. The incident exposed an extensive amount of personal information on almost 50k members including email addresses, genders, ages, private messages sent between users of the service and passwords stored as SHA-256 hashes. Appartoo advised that all subscribers were notified of the incident in early 2017. Exposed data: ages, auth tokens, email addresses, employment statuses, genders, ip addresses, marital statuses, names, passwords, physical addresses, private messages, social media profiles. The breach dates from Mar 25, 2017; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on May 2, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a Appartoo 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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