Promo data breach: 14.6M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-07-26
In July 2020, the self-proclaimed "World's 1 Marketing Video Maker" Promo suffered a data breach which was then shared extensively on a hacking forum. The incident exposed 22 million records containing almost 15 million unique email addresses alongside IP addresses, genders, names and salted SHA-256 password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: email addresses, genders, ip addresses, names, passwords. The breach dates from Jun 22, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 26, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Promo 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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