Slickwraps data breach: 857K accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-02-22
In February 2020, the online store for consumer electronics wraps Slickwraps suffered a data breach. The incident resulted in the exposure of 858k unique email addresses across customer records and newsletter subscribers. Additional impacted data included names, physical addresses, phone numbers and purchase histories. Exposed data: email addresses, names, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases. The breach dates from Feb 16, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 22, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Slickwraps 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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