BlackBerry Fans data breach: 174K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-05-16
In May 2022, the Chinese BlackBerry enthusiasts website BlackBerry Fans suffered a data breach that exposed 174k member records. The impacted data included usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from May 6, 2022; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on May 16, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a BlackBerry Fans 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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