diet.com data breach: 1.4M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-10-13
In August 2014, the diet and nutrition website diet.com suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 1.4 million unique user records dating back as far as 2004. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames, plain text passwords and dietary information about the site members including eating habits, BMI and birth date. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory. Exposed data: dates of birth, eating habits, email addresses, ip addresses, names, passwords, physical attributes, usernames. The breach dates from Aug 10, 2014; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Oct 13, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a diet.com 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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