Date Hot Brunettes data breach: 1.5M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2024-07-04
In January 2021, the now defunct website Date Hot Brunettes which provided a service to "Date Neglected Women Who Can Keep a Secret", suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 1.5M unique email addresses along with IP addresses, usernames, user-entered bios and MD5 password hashes. Exposed data: bios, email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jan 12, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 4, 2024.
What to do
- If you had a Date Hot Brunettes 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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