NapsGear data breach: 287K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2018-09-10
In October 2015, the anabolic steroids retailer NapsGear suffered a data breach. An extensive amount of personal information on 287k customers was exposed including email addresses, names, addresses, phone numbers, purchase histories and salted MD5 password hashes. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases. The breach dates from Oct 21, 2015; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Sep 10, 2018.
What to do
- If you had a NapsGear 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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