Vedantu data breach: 686K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-11-01
In mid-2019, the Indian interactive online tutoring platform Vedantu suffered a data breach which exposed the personal data of 687k users. The JSON formatted database dump exposed extensive personal information including email and IP address, names, phone numbers, genders and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. When contacted about the incident, Vedantu advised that they were aware of the breach and were in the process of informing their customers. Exposed data: browser user agent details, email addresses, genders, ip addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, spoken languages, time zones, website activity. The breach dates from Jul 8, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 1, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a Vedantu 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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