Ulmon data breach: 777K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-05-08
In January 2020, the travel app creator Ulmon suffered a data breach. The service had almost 1.3M records with 777k unique email addresses, names, passwords stored as bcrypt hashes and in some cases, social media profile IDs, telephone numbers and bios. The data was subsequently posted to a popular hacking forum. Exposed data: bios, email addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, social media profiles. The breach dates from Jan 26, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on May 8, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Ulmon 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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