Guns.com data breach: 375K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-01-13
In January 2021, the firearms website guns.com suffered a data breach. The breach exposed 376k unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, physical addresses, gun purchases, partial credit card data, dates of birth and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, names, partial credit card data, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases. The breach dates from Jan 12, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 13, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a Guns.com 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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