Romwe data breach: 19.5M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2021-01-18
In mid-2018, the Hong Kong-based retailer Romwe suffered a data breach which exposed almost 20 million customers. The data was subsequently sold online and includes names, phone numbers, email and IP addresses, customer geographic locations and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: geographic locations, ip addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses. The breach dates from Jun 1, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 18, 2021.
What to do
- If you had a Romwe 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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