Truth Finder data breach: 8.2M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2023-02-04
In 2019, the public records search service TruthFinder suffered a data breach that later came to light in early 2023. The data included over 8M unique customer email addresses, names, phone numbers and passwords stored as scrypt hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers. The breach dates from Apr 12, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 4, 2023.
What to do
- If you had a Truth Finder 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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