Coachella data breach: 599K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-06-27
In February 2017, hundreds of thousands of records from the Coachella music festival were discovered being sold online. Allegedly taken from a combination of the main Coachella website and their vBulletin-based message board, the data included almost 600k usernames, IP and email addresses and salted hashes of passwords (MD5 in the case of the message board). Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Feb 22, 2017; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jun 27, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a Coachella 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
All live incidents on Threat Watch