Paddy Power data breach: 590K accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2015-10-11
In October 2010, the Irish bookmaker Paddy Power suffered a data breach that exposed 750,000 customer records with nearly 600,000 unique email addresses. The breach was not disclosed until July 2014 and contained extensive personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers and plain text security questions and answers. Exposed data: account balances, dates of birth, email addresses, ip addresses, names, phone numbers, physical addresses, security questions and answers, usernames, website activity. The breach dates from Oct 25, 2010; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Oct 11, 2015.
What to do
- If you had a Paddy Power 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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