MEO data breach: 8227 accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2023-04-24
In early 2023, a corpus of data sourced from the New Zealand based face mask company MEO was discovered. Dating back to December 2020, the data contained over 8k customer records including names, addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored as MD5 Wordpress hashes. MEO did not respond to multiple attempts to report the breach. Exposed data: email addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases, usernames. The breach dates from Dec 24, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Apr 24, 2023.
What to do
- If you had a MEO 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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