Coinmama data breach: 478K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-08-30
In August 2017, the crypto coin brokerage service Coinmama suffered a data breach that impacted 479k subscribers. The breach was discovered in February 2019 with exposed data including email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as MD5 WordPress hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by white hat security researcher and data analyst Adam Davies. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Aug 3, 2017; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Aug 30, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a Coinmama 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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