LimeVPN data breach: 23K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2023-02-06
In October 2020, the VPN provider LimeVPN suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of tens of thousands of customers. The data included email, IP and physical addresses, names, phone numbers, purchase histories and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases. The breach dates from Oct 8, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 6, 2023.
What to do
- If you had a LimeVPN 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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