HuntStand data breach: 2.8M accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2024-09-19
In March 2024, millions of records scraped from the hunting and land management service HuntStand were publicly posted to a popular hacking forum. The data included 2.8M unique email addresses with many records also containing name, date of birth and country. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, geographic locations, names. The breach dates from Mar 8, 2024; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Sep 19, 2024.
What to do
- If you had a HuntStand 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.
Sources
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