Scentbird data breach: 5.8M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-07-30
In June 2020, the online fragrance service Scentbird suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of over 5.8 million customers. Personal information including names, email addresses, genders, dates of birth, passwords stored as bcrypt hashes and indicators of password strength were all exposed. The data was provided to HIBP by breachbase.pw. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, password strengths, passwords. The breach dates from Jun 22, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 30, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Scentbird 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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