Last.fm data breach: 37.2M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2016-09-20
In March 2012, the music website Last.fm was hacked and 43 million user accounts were exposed. Whilst Last.fm knew of an incident back in 2012, the scale of the hack was not known until the data was released publicly in September 2016. The breach included 37 million unique email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames, website activity. The breach dates from Mar 22, 2012; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Sep 20, 2016.
What to do
- If you had a Last.fm 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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