Bukalapak data breach: 13.4M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-04-18
In March 2019, the Indonesian e-commerce website Bukalapak discovered a data breach of the organisation's backups dating back to October 2017. The incident exposed approximately 13 million unique email addresses alongside IP addresses, names and passwords stored as bcrypt and salted SHA-512 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, names, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Oct 23, 2017; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Apr 18, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a Bukalapak 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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