Ster-Kinekor data breach: 1.6M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-03-13
In 2016, the South African cinema company Ster-Kinekor had a security flaw which leaked a large amount of customer data via an enumeration vulnerability in the API of their old website. Whilst more than 6 million accounts were leaked by the flaw, the exposed data only contained 1.6 million unique email addresses. The data also included extensive personal information such as names, addresses, birthdates, genders and plain text passwords. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, spoken languages. The breach dates from Mar 9, 2017; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 13, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a Ster-Kinekor 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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