Sphero data breach: 832K accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2023-10-20
In September 2023, over 1M rows of data from the educational robots company Sphero was posted to a popular hacking forum. The data contained 832k unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, dates of birth and geographic locations. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, geographic locations, names, usernames. The breach dates from Sep 9, 2023; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Oct 20, 2023.
What to do
- If you had a Sphero 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.
Sources
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