Open Subtitles data breach: 6.8M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-01-19
In August 2021, the subtitling website Open Subtitles suffered a data breach and subsequent ransom demand. The breach exposed almost 7M subscribers' personal data including email and IP addresses, usernames, the country of the user and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, geographic locations, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Aug 1, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 19, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a Open Subtitles 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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