bigbasket data breach: 24.5M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2021-04-26
In October 2020, the Indian grocery platform bigbasket suffered a data breach that exposed over 20 million customer records. The data was originally sold before being leaked publicly in April the following year and included email, IP and physical addresses, names, phones numbers, dates of birth passwords stored as Django(SHA-1) hashes. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, ip addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses. The breach dates from Oct 14, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Apr 26, 2021.
What to do
- If you had a bigbasket 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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