Dave data breach: 3.0M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-07-27
In June 2020, the digital banking app Dave suffered a data breach which exposed 7.5 million rows of data and subsequently appeared for public download on a hacking forum. The breach exposed extensive personal information including almost 3 million unique email addresses alongside names, dates of birth, encrypted social security numbers and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, social security numbers. The breach dates from Jun 28, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 27, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Dave 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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