Daily Quiz data breach: 8.0M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2021-05-21
In January 2021, the quiz website Daily Quiz suffered a data breach that exposed over 8 million unique email addresses. The data also included usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored in plain text. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jan 13, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on May 21, 2021.
What to do
- If you had a Daily Quiz 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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