Vakinha data breach: 4.8M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-08-01
In June 2020, the Brazilian fund raising service Vakinha suffered a data breach which impacted almost 4.8 million members. The exposed data included email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes, all of which was subsequently shared extensively throughout online hacking communities. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, ip addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers. The breach dates from Jun 22, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Aug 1, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Vakinha 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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