Money Bookers data breach: 4.5M accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2015-11-30
Sometime in 2009, the e-wallet service known as Money Bookers suffered a data breach which exposed almost 4.5M customers. Now called Skrill, the breach was not discovered until October 2015 and included names, email addresses, home addresses and IP addresses. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, ip addresses, names, phone numbers, physical addresses. The breach dates from Jan 1, 2009; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 30, 2015.
What to do
- If you had a Money Bookers 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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