PoinCampus data breach: 89K accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2025-02-04
In November 2024, the South Korean education platform PoinCampus suffered a data breach which was later published to a popular hacking forum. The data included 89k unique email addresses, names and a small number of phone numbers and dates of birth. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, names, phone numbers. The breach dates from Nov 14, 2024; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 4, 2025.
What to do
- If you had a PoinCampus 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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