TrueFire data breach: 599K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-08-02
In February 2020, the guitar tuition website TrueFire suffered a data breach which impacted 600k members. The breach exposed extensive personal information including names, email and physical addresses, account balances and unsalted MD5 password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: account balances, dates of birth, email addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, usernames. The breach dates from Feb 21, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Aug 2, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a TrueFire 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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