BookCrossing data breach: 1.6M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2023-07-25
In August 2022, the book social networking site BookCrossing disclosed a data breach that dated back to a database backup from November 2012. The incident exposed almost 1.6M records including names, usernames, email and IP addresses, dates of birth and plain text passwords. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, geographic locations, ip addresses, names, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Nov 5, 2012; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 25, 2023.
What to do
- If you had a BookCrossing 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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