FlexBooker data breach: 3.8M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-01-06
In December 2021, the online booking service FlexBooker suffered a data breach that exposed 3.7 million accounts. The data included email addresses, names, phone numbers and for a small number of accounts, password hashes and partial credit card data. FlexBooker has identified the breach as originating from a compromised account within their AWS infrastructure. The data was found being actively traded on a popular hacking forum. Exposed data: email addresses, names, partial credit card data, passwords, phone numbers. The breach dates from Dec 23, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 6, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a FlexBooker 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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