PSP ISO data breach: 1.3M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-01-29
In approximately September 2015, the PlayStation PSP forum known as PSP ISO was hacked and almost 1.3 million accounts were exposed. Along with email and IP addresses, the vBulletin forum also exposed salted MD5 password hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Sep 25, 2015; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 29, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a PSP ISO 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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