ToonDoo data breach: 6.0M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-11-11
In August 2019, the comic strip creation website ToonDoo suffered a data breach. The data was subsequently redistributed on a popular hacking forum in November where the personal information of over 6M subscribers was shared. Impacted data included email and IP addresses, usernames, genders, the location of the individual and salted password hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, genders, geographic locations, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Aug 21, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 11, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a ToonDoo 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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