Reincubate data breach: 616K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-10-29
In October 2020, the app data company Reincubate suffered a data breach which exposed a backup from November 2017 (the newest record in the data appeared several months earlier). The data included over 616k unique email addresses, names and passwords stored as PBKDF2 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, names, passwords. The breach dates from May 11, 2017; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Oct 29, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Reincubate 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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