Cannabis.com data breach: 227K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2014-06-01
In February 2014, the vBulletin forum for the Marijuana site cannabis.com was breached and leaked publicly. Whilst there has been no public attribution of the breach, the leaked data included over 227k accounts and nearly 10k private messages between users of the forum. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, geographic locations, historical passwords, instant messenger identities, ip addresses, passwords, private messages, usernames, website activity. The breach dates from Feb 5, 2014; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jun 1, 2014.
What to do
- If you had a Cannabis.com 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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