Liker data breach: 465K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2021-03-13
In March 2021, the self-proclaimed "kinder, smarter social network" Liker suffered a data breach, allegedly in retaliation for the Gab data breach and scraping of data from Parler. The site remained offline after the breach which exposed 465k email addresses in addition to names, dates of birth, education levels, private messages, security questions and answers in plain text, passwords stored as bcrypt hashes and other personal data attributes. Liker did not respond when contacted about the breach. Exposed data: auth tokens, dates of birth, education levels, email addresses, geographic locations, ip addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, private messages, security questions and answers, social media profiles, usernames. The breach dates from Mar 8, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 13, 2021.
What to do
- If you had a Liker 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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