Eskimi data breach: 1.2M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-07-16
In late 2020, the AdTech platform Eskimi suffered a data breach that exposed 26M records with 1.2M unique email addresses. The data included usernames, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, geographic locations, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Sep 25, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 16, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a Eskimi 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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