Dailymotion data breach: 85.2M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-08-07
In October 2016, the video sharing platform Dailymotion suffered a data breach. The attack led to the exposure of more than 85 million user accounts and included email addresses, usernames and bcrypt hashes of passwords. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Oct 20, 2016; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Aug 7, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a Dailymotion 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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