MobiFriends data breach: 3.5M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2021-05-23
In January 2020, the Barcelona-based dating app MobiFriends suffered a data breach that exposed 3.5 million unique email addresses. The data also included usernames, genders, dates of birth and MD5 password hashes. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jan 6, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on May 23, 2021.
What to do
- If you had a MobiFriends 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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