Chowbus data breach: 444K accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-10-06
In October 2020, the Asian food delivery app Chowbus suffered a data breach which led to over 800,000 records being emailed to customers. The email contained a link to a CSV file with customer data including physical addresses, names, phone numbers and over 444,000 unique email addresses. Exposed data: email addresses, names, phone numbers, physical addresses. The breach dates from Oct 5, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Oct 6, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Chowbus 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.
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