SurveyLama data breach: 4.4M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2024-04-02
In February 2024, the paid survey website SurveyLama suffered a data breach that exposed 4.4M customer email addresses. The incident also exposed names, physical and IP addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and passwords stored as either salted SHA-1, bcrypt or argon2 hashes. When contacted about the incident, SurveyLama advised that they had already "notified the users by email". Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, ip addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses. The breach dates from Feb 1, 2024; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Apr 2, 2024.
What to do
- If you had a SurveyLama 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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