Спрашивай.ру data breach: 3.5M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2015-05-12
In May 2015, Спрашивай.ру (a the Russian website for anonymous reviews) was reported to have had 6.7 million user details exposed by a hacker known as "w0rm". Intended to be a site for expressing anonymous opinions, the leaked data included email addresses, birth dates and other personally identifiable data about almost 3.5 million unique email addresses found in the leak. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, geographic locations, ip addresses, passwords, spoken languages. The breach dates from May 11, 2015; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on May 12, 2015.
What to do
- If you had a Спрашивай.ру 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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