Retina-X data breach: 71K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-04-30
In February 2017, the mobile device monitoring software developer Retina-X was hacked and customer data downloaded before being wiped from their servers. The incident was covered in the Motherboard article titled Inside the 'Stalkerware' Surveillance Market, Where Ordinary People Tap Each Other's Phones. The service, used to monitor mobile devices, had 71k email addresses and MD5 hashes with no salt exposed. Retina-X disclosed the incident in a blog post on April 27, 2017. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords. The breach dates from Feb 23, 2017; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Apr 30, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a Retina-X 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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