Victory Phones data breach: 166K accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-10-11
In January 2017, the automated telephony services company Victory Phones left a Mongo DB database publicly facing without a password. Subsequently, 213GB of data was downloaded by an unauthorised party including names, addresses, phone numbers and over 166k unique email addresses. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, ip addresses, names, phone numbers, physical addresses. The breach dates from Jan 1, 2017; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Oct 11, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a Victory Phones 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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