Republican Party of Texas data breach: 72K accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2021-10-06
In September 2021, the Republican Party of Texas was hacked by a group claiming to be "Anonymous" in retaliation for the state's controversial abortion ban. The September defacement was followed by a leak of data and documents which included material from the hosting provider Epik. Impacted data included over 72 thousand unique email addresses across various tables, some also including names, geographic location data, IP addresses and browser user agents. Exposed data: browser user agent details, email addresses, geographic locations, ip addresses, names. The breach dates from Sep 11, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Oct 6, 2021.
What to do
- If you had a Republican Party of Texas 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.
Sources
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