La Poste Mobile data breach: 533K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-07-14
In July 2022, the French telecommunications company La Poste Mobile was the target of an attack by the LockBit ransomware which resulted in company data being published publicly. The impacted data included 533k unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of births, genders and banking information. 10 days after the attack, the La Poste Mobile website remained offline. Exposed data: bank account numbers, dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, phone numbers, physical addresses. The breach dates from Jul 4, 2022; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 14, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a La Poste Mobile 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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