Bourse des Vols data breach: 1.5M accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-07-03
In January 2021, the French travel company Bourse des Vols suffered a data breach that exposed 1.46M unique email addresses across more than 1.2k.sql files and over 9GB of data. The impacted data exposed personal information and travel histories including names, phone numbers, IP and physical addresses, dates of birth along with flights taken and purchases. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, flights taken, ip addresses, names, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases. The breach dates from Jan 12, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 3, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a Bourse des Vols 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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