Kimsufi data breach: 504K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2016-12-27
In mid-2015, the forum for the providers of affordable dedicated servers known as Kimsufi suffered a data breach. The vBulletin forum contained over half a million accounts including usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from May 1, 2015; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Dec 27, 2016.
What to do
- If you had a Kimsufi 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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