Chess.com (2023) data breach: 1.3M accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2023-11-10
In November 2023, over 800k user records were scraped from the Chess.com website and posted to a popular hacking forum. The data included email address, name, username and the geographic location of the user. A further 446k scraped records were later provided and added to HIBP. Exposed data: email addresses, geographic locations, names, usernames. The breach dates from Nov 8, 2023; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 10, 2023.
What to do
- If you had a Chess.com (2023) 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.
Sources
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