Jefit data breach: 9.1M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2021-04-27
In August 2020, the workout tracking app Jefit suffered a data breach. The data was subsequently sold within the hacking community and included over 9 million email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as either vBulletin or argon2 hashes. Several million cracked passwords later appeared in broad circulation. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Aug 11, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Apr 27, 2021.
What to do
- If you had a Jefit 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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