GPS Underground data breach: 669K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-11-19
In early 2017, GPS Underground was amongst a collection of compromised vBulletin websites that were found being sold online. The breach dated back to mid-2016 and included 670k records with usernames, email and IP addresses, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jul 1, 2016; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 19, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a GPS Underground 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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