Fantasy Football Hub data breach: 66K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2021-10-07
In October 2021, the fantasy premier league (soccer) website Fantasy Football Hub suffered a data breach that exposed 66 thousand unique email addresses. The data included names, usernames, IP addresses, transactions and passwords stored as WordPress MD5 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, names, passwords, purchases, usernames. The breach dates from Oct 2, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Oct 7, 2021.
What to do
- If you had a Fantasy Football Hub 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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