Not SOCRadar data breach: 282.5M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2024-08-09
In August 2024, over 332M rows of email addresses were posted to a popular hacking forum. The post alleged the addresses were scraped from cybersecurity firm SOCRadar, however an investigation on their behalf concluded that "the actor merely utilised functionalities inherent in the platform's standard offerings, designed to gather information from publicly available sources". There is no suggestion the incident compromised SOCRadar's security or posed any risk to their customers. In total, the data set contained 282M unique addresses of valid email address format. Exposed data: email addresses. The breach dates from Aug 3, 2024; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Aug 9, 2024.
What to do
- If you had a Not SOCRadar 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.
Sources
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