ShopBack data breach: 20.5M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2021-04-25
In September 2020, the cashback reward program ShopBack suffered a data breach. The incident exposed over 20 million unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, country of residence and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: email addresses, geographic locations, names, passwords, phone numbers. The breach dates from Sep 17, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Apr 25, 2021.
What to do
- If you had a ShopBack 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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