Baby Names data breach: 846K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2018-10-24
In approximately 2008, the site to help parents name their children known as Baby Names suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 846k email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. When contacted in October 2018, Baby Names advised that "the breach happened at least ten years ago" and that members were notified at the time. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords. The breach dates from Oct 24, 2008; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Oct 24, 2018.
What to do
- If you had a Baby Names 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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