DatPiff data breach: 7.5M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-01-04
In late 2021, email address and plain text password pairs from the rap mixtape website DatPiff appeared for sale on a popular hacking forum. The data allegedly dated back to an earlier breach and in total, contained almost 7.5M email addresses and cracked password pairs. The original data source allegedly contained usernames, security questions and answers and passwords stored as MD5 hashes with a static salt. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, security questions and answers, usernames. The breach dates from Aug 25, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 4, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a DatPiff 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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