Raychat data breach: 938K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2021-07-04
In January 2021, the now defunct Iranian social media platform Raychat suffered a data breach that exposed 939 thousand unique email addresses. The data included names, IP addresses, browser user agent strings and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: browser user agent details, email addresses, ip addresses, names, passwords. The breach dates from Jan 31, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 4, 2021.
What to do
- If you had a Raychat 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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