Hemmakväll data breach: 47K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2015-07-09
In July 2015, the Swedish video store chain Hemmakväll was hacked and nearly 50k records dumped publicly. The disclosed data included various attributes of their customers including email and physical addresses, names and phone numbers. Passwords were also leaked, stored with a weak MD5 hashing algorithm. Exposed data: email addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses. The breach dates from Jul 8, 2015; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 9, 2015.
What to do
- If you had a Hemmakväll 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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