StoryBird data breach: 1.0M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2021-02-02
In August 2015, the storytelling service StoryBird suffered a data breach exposing 4 million records with 1 million unique email addresses. Impacted data also included names, usernames and passwords stored as PBKDF2 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: email addresses, names, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Aug 7, 2015; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 2, 2021.
What to do
- If you had a StoryBird 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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