iPmart data breach: 2.5M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2016-02-23
During 2015, the iPmart forum (now known as Mobi NUKE) was hacked and over 2 million forum members' details were exposed. The vBulletin forum included IP addresses, birth dates and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked. A further 368k accounts were added to "Have I Been Pwned" in March 2016 bringing the total to over 2.4M. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jul 1, 2015; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 23, 2016.
What to do
- If you had a iPmart 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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