Shadi.com data breach: 2.0M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-07-20
In July 2016, the Muslim dating site Shadi.com suffered a data breach that exposed over 2M members' email addresses. The breach also exposed passwords stored as MD5 hashes alongside their plain text equivalents. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords. The breach dates from Jul 9, 2016; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 20, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a Shadi.com 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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