Bookchor data breach: 498K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-07-03
In January 2021, the Indian book trading website Bookchor suffered a data breach that exposed half a million customer records. The exposed data included email and IP addresses, names, genders, dates of birth, phone numbers and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. The data was subsequently traded on a popular hacking forum. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, ip addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, social media profiles. The breach dates from Jan 28, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 3, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a Bookchor 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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