HomeRefill data breach: 187K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2025-10-03
In April 2020, now defunct Brazilian e-commerce platform HomeRefill suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 187k unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, dates of birth and salted password hashes. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers. The breach dates from Apr 2, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Oct 3, 2025.
What to do
- If you had a HomeRefill 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.
Sources
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