Home Chef data breach: 8.8M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-11-13
In early 2020, the food delivery service Home Chef suffered a data breach which was subsequently sold online. The breach exposed the personal information of almost 9 million customers including names, IP addresses, post codes, the last 4 digits of credit card numbers and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: email addresses, geographic locations, ip addresses, names, partial credit card data, passwords, phone numbers. The breach dates from Feb 10, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 13, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Home Chef 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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