Kickstarter data breach: 5.2M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-10-06
In February 2014, the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained almost 5.2 million unique email addresses, usernames and salted SHA1 hashes of passwords. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords. The breach dates from Feb 16, 2014; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Oct 6, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a Kickstarter 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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