Spirol data breach: 55K accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2014-02-22
In February 2014, Connecticut based Spirol Fastening Solutions suffered a data breach that exposed over 70,000 customer records. The attack was allegedly mounted by exploiting a SQL injection vulnerability which yielded data from Spirol’s CRM system ranging from customers’ names, companies, contact information and over 55,000 unique email addresses. Exposed data: email addresses, employers, job titles, names, phone numbers, physical addresses. The breach dates from Feb 22, 2014; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 22, 2014.
What to do
- If you had a Spirol 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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