Bin Weevils data breach: 1.3M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-08-18
In September 2014, the online game Bin Weevils suffered a data breach. Whilst originally stating that only usernames and passwords had been exposed, a subsequent story on DataBreaches.net indicated that a more extensive set of personal attributes were impacted (comments there also suggest the data may have come from a later breach). Data matching that pattern was later provided to Have I Been Pwned by @akshayindia6 and included almost 1.3m unique email addresses, genders, ages and plain text passwords. Exposed data: ages, email addresses, genders, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Sep 1, 2014; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Aug 18, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a Bin Weevils 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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