Famm data breach: 535K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-07-16
In late 2020, the Japanese family photos website Famm suffered a data breach that subsequently exposed 1.3M customer records, including 535k unique email addresses. Impacted data also included names, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as SHA-256 hashes. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, passwords. The breach dates from Oct 8, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 16, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a Famm 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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