Bookmate data breach: 3.8M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-03-22
In mid-2018, the social ebook subscription service Bookmate was among a raft of sites that were breached and their data then sold in early-2019. The data included almost 4 million unique email addresses alongside names, genders, dates of birth and passwords stored as salted SHA-512 hashes. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, geographic locations, names, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jul 8, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 22, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a Bookmate 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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