VNG data breach: 24.9M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2018-04-28
In April 2018, news broke of a massive data breach impacting the Vietnamese company known as VNG after data was discovered being traded on a popular hacking forum where it was extensively redistributed. The breach dated back to an incident in May of 2015 and included of over 163 million customers. The data in the breach contained a wide range of personal attributes including usernames, birth dates, genders and home addresses along with unsalted MD5 hashes and 25 million unique email addresses. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, ip addresses, marital statuses, names, occupations, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, usernames. The breach dates from May 19, 2015; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Apr 28, 2018.
What to do
- If you had a VNG 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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