Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori data breach: 14K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2018-11-07
In November 2018, the Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori (Italian Society of Authors and Publishers, or SIAE) was hacked, defaced and almost 4GB of data leaked publicly via Twitter. The data included over 14k registered users' names, email addresses and passwords. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers. The breach dates from Nov 3, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 7, 2018.
What to do
- If you had a Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori 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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