Straffic data breach: 48.6M accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-02-27
In February 2020, Israeli marketing company Straffic exposed a database with 140GB of personal data. The publicly accessible Elasticsearch database contained over 300M rows with 49M unique email addresses. Exposed data also included names, phone numbers, physical addresses and genders. In their breach disclosure message, Straffic stated that "it is impossible to create a totally immune system, and these things can occur". Exposed data: email addresses, genders, names, phone numbers, physical addresses. The breach dates from Feb 14, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 27, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Straffic 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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