Tamodo data breach: 494K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-03-24
In February 2020, the affiliate marketing network Tamodo suffered a data breach which was subsequently shared on a popular hacking forum. The incident exposed almost 500k accounts including names, email addresses, dates of birth and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. Tamodo failed to respond to multiple attempts to report the breach via published communication channels. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, geographic locations, ip addresses, names, passwords. The breach dates from Feb 28, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 24, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Tamodo 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
All live incidents on Threat Watch
