Universarium data breach: 564K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-01-03
In approximately November 2019, the Russian "Remote preparatory faculty for IT specialties" Universarium suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 565k email addresses and passwords in plain text. Universarium did not respond to multiple attempts to make contact over a period of many weeks. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords. The breach dates from Nov 1, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 3, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Universarium 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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