Sport 2000 data breach: 3.2M accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2024-08-28
In April 2024, the French sporting equipment manufacturer Sport 2000 announced it had suffered a data breach. The data was subsequently put up for sale on a popular hacking forum and included 4.4M rows with 3.2M unique email addresses alongside names, physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and purchases made by store name. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, names, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases, salutations. The breach dates from Apr 18, 2024; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Aug 28, 2024.
What to do
- If you had a Sport 2000 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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