Little Monsters data breach: 995K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-03-07
In approximately January 2017, the Lady Gaga fan site known as "Little Monsters" suffered a data breach that impacted 1 million accounts. The data contained usernames, email addresses, dates of birth and bcrypt hashes of passwords. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jan 1, 2017; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 7, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a Little Monsters 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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