PoliceOne data breach: 709K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-11-15
In February 2017, the law enforcement website PoliceOne confirmed they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained over 700k accounts which appeared for sale by a data broker and included email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 password hashes. The file the data was contained in indicated the original breach dated back to July 2014. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jul 1, 2014; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 15, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a PoliceOne 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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