Business Acumen Magazine data breach: 26K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2014-05-11
In April 2014, the Australian "Business Acumen Magazine" website was hacked by an attacker known as 1337MiR. The breach resulted in over 26,000 accounts being exposed including usernames, email addresses and password stored with a weak cryptographic hashing algorithm (MD5 with no salt). Exposed data: email addresses, names, passwords, usernames, website activity. The breach dates from Apr 25, 2014; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on May 11, 2014.
What to do
- If you had a Business Acumen Magazine 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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