Spoutible data breach: 207K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2024-02-05
In January 2024, Spoutible had 207k records scraped from a misconfigured API that inadvertently returned excessive personal information. The data included names, usernames, email and IP addresses, phone numbers (where provided to the platform), genders and bcrypt password hashes. The incident also exposed 2FA secrets and backup codes along with password reset tokens. Exposed data: email addresses, genders, ip addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, usernames. The breach dates from Jan 31, 2024; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 5, 2024.
What to do
- If you had a Spoutible 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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