Minted data breach: 4.4M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-11-03
In May 2020, the online marketplace for independent artists Minted suffered a data breach that exposed 4.4M unique customer records subsequently sold on a dark web marketplace. Exposed data also included names, physical addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: email addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses. The breach dates from May 6, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 3, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Minted 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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