Mindjolt data breach: 28.4M accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-07-13
In March 2019, the online gaming website MindJolt suffered a data breach that exposed 28M unique email addresses. Also impacted were names and dates of birth, but no passwords. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, names. The breach dates from Mar 18, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 13, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a Mindjolt 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.
Sources
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