The Fly on the Wall data breach: 84K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2018-01-15
In December 2017, the stock market news website The Fly on the Wall suffered a data breach. The data in the breach included 84k unique email addresses as well as purchase histories and credit card data. Numerous attempts were made to contact The Fly on the Wall about the incident, however no responses were received. Exposed data: age groups, credit cards, email addresses, genders, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases, usernames. The breach dates from Dec 31, 2017; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 15, 2018.
What to do
- If you had a The Fly on the Wall 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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