TheGradCafe data breach: 310K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2023-03-24
In February 2023, the grad school admissions search website TheGradCafe suffered a data breach that disclosed the personal records of 310k users. The data included email addresses, names and usernames, genders, geographic locations and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. Some records also included physical address, phone number and date of birth. TheGradCafe did not respond to multiple attempts to disclose the breach. Exposed data: email addresses, genders, geographic locations, ip addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, usernames. The breach dates from Feb 26, 2023; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 24, 2023.
What to do
- If you had a TheGradCafe 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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