Tout data breach: 652K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-01-25
In approximately September 2014, the now defunct social networking service Tout suffered a data breach. The breach subsequently appeared years later and included 653k unique email addresses, names, IP addresses, the location of the user, their bio and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. Exposed data: bios, email addresses, geographic locations, ip addresses, names, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Sep 11, 2014; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 25, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Tout 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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