LiveAuctioneers data breach: 3.4M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-08-22
In June 2020, the online antiques marketplace LiveAuctioneers suffered a data breach which was subsequently sold online then extensively redistributed in the hacking community. The data contained 3.4 million records including names, email and IP addresses, physical addresses, phones numbers and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by breachbase.pw. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, usernames. The breach dates from Jun 19, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Aug 22, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a LiveAuctioneers 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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