HauteLook data breach: 28.5M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-03-21
In mid-2018, the fashion shopping site HauteLook was among a raft of sites that were breached and their data then sold in early-2019. The data included over 28 million unique email addresses alongside names, genders, dates of birth and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, geographic locations, names, passwords. The breach dates from Aug 7, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 21, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a HauteLook 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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