KitchenPal data breach: 98K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2023-11-24
In November 2023, the kitchen management application KitchenPal suffered a data breach that exposed 146k lines of data. When contacted about the incident, KitchenPal advised the corpus of data came from a staging environment, although acknowledged it contained a small number of users for debugging purposes and included passwords that could not be used. Impacted data included almost 100k email addresses, names, geolocations and incomplete data on dates of birth, genders, height and weight, social media profile identifiers and bcrypt password hashes. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, geographic locations, names, passwords, physical attributes, social media profiles. The breach dates from Nov 14, 2023; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 24, 2023.
What to do
- If you had a KitchenPal 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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