Brand New Tube data breach: 349K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-09-08
In August 2022, the streaming website Brand New Tube suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of almost 350k subscribers. The impacted data included email and IP addresses, usernames, genders, passwords stored as unsalted SHA-1 hashes and private messages. Exposed data: email addresses, genders, ip addresses, passwords, private messages, usernames. The breach dates from Aug 14, 2022; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Sep 8, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a Brand New Tube 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.
Sources
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