SweClockers.com data breach: 254K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-03-22
In early 2015, the Swedish tech news site SweClockers was hacked and 255k accounts were exposed. The attack led to the exposure of usernames, email addresses and salted hashes of passwords stored with a combination of MD5 and SHA512. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Apr 1, 2015; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 22, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a SweClockers.com 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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