MoDaCo data breach: 879K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2016-09-20
In approximately January 2016, the UK based Android community known as MoDaCo suffered a data breach which exposed 880k subscriber identities. The data included email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jan 1, 2016; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Sep 20, 2016.
What to do
- If you had a MoDaCo 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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