Short Édition data breach: 505K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2021-07-19
In June 2021, the French publishing house of short literature Short Édition suffered a data breach that exposed 505k records. Impacted data included email and physical addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as either salted SHA-1 or salted SHA-512 hashes. Short Édition self-submitted the impacted data to HIBP. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, social media profiles, usernames. The breach dates from Jun 26, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 19, 2021.
What to do
- If you had a Short Édition 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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