StockX data breach: 6.8M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-08-10
In July 2019, the fashion and sneaker trading platform StockX suffered a data breach which was subsequently sold via a dark webmarketplace. The exposed data included 6.8 million unique email addresses, names, physical addresses, purchases and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: email addresses, names, passwords, physical addresses, purchases, usernames. The breach dates from Jul 26, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Aug 10, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a StockX 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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