Aptoide data breach: 20.0M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-04-19
In April 2020, the independent Android app store Aptoide suffered a data breach. The incident resulted in the exposure of 20M customer records which were subsequently shared online via a popular hacking forum. Impacted data included email and IP addresses, names, IP addresses and passwords stored as SHA-1 hashes without a salt. Exposed data: browser user agent details, email addresses, ip addresses, names, passwords. The breach dates from Apr 13, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Apr 19, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Aptoide 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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