Lifebear data breach: 3.7M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-05-25
In early 2019, the Japanese schedule app Lifebear appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace amongst a raft of other hacked websites. The breach exposed almost 3.7M unique email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Feb 28, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on May 25, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Lifebear 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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