James data breach: 1.5M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-11-05
In June 2020, 14 previously undisclosed data breaches appeared for sale including the Brazilian delivery service, "James". The breach occurred in March 2020 and exposed 1.5M unique email addresses, customer locations expressed in longitude and latitude and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: email addresses, geographic locations, latitude and longitude pairs, passwords. The breach dates from Mar 25, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 5, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a James 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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