Legendas.TV data breach: 3.9M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2024-01-04
In October 2017, the now defunct Brazilian service for retrieving subtitles in Portuguese Legendas.TV suffered a data breach that exposed nearly 4M customer records. The impacted data included names, usernames, email and IP addresses and unsalted SHA-1 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, names, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Oct 1, 2017; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 4, 2024.
What to do
- If you had a Legendas.TV 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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