MacGeneration data breach: 101K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-03-03
In January 2022, the French Apple news website MacGeneration suffered a data breach. The incident exposed over 100k usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted SHA-512 hashes. After discovering the incident, MacGeneration self-submitted data to HIBP. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jan 29, 2022; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 3, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a MacGeneration 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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