England Cricket data breach: 43K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2024-03-29
In March 2024, English Cricket's icoachcricket website suffered a data breach that exposed over 40k records. The data included email addresses and passwords stored as either bcrypt hashes, salted MD5 hashes or both. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords. The breach dates from Mar 23, 2024; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 29, 2024.
What to do
- If you had a England Cricket 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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