Trillian data breach: 3.8M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2016-07-15
In December 2015, the instant messaging application Trillian suffered a data breach. The breach became known in July 2016 and exposed various personal data attributes including names, email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, ip addresses, names, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Dec 27, 2015; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 15, 2016.
What to do
- If you had a Trillian 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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