SlideTeam data breach: 1.5M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2023-01-07
In April 2021, the "world’s largest collection of pre-designed presentation slides" SlideTeam had 1.4M records breached and later published to a popular hacking forum the following year. Allegedly sourced from a compromised Magento instance, the data included names, email addresses and passwords stored as salted hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, names, passwords. The breach dates from Apr 6, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 7, 2023.
What to do
- If you had a SlideTeam 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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