HTC Mania data breach: 1.5M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-04-06
In January 2020, the Spanish mobile phone forum HTC Mania suffered a data breach of the vBulletin based site. The incident exposed 1.5M member email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes and password histories. Data from the breach was subsequently redistributed on popular hacking websites. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, historical passwords, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jan 4, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Apr 6, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a HTC Mania 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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