Wishbone (2016) data breach: 2.2M accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-03-15
In August 2016, the mobile app to "compare anything" known as Wishbone suffered a data breach. The data contained 9.4 million records with 2.2 million unique email addresses and was allegedly a subset of the complete data set. The exposed data included genders, birthdates, email addresses and phone numbers for an audience predominantly composed of teenagers and young adults. Exposed data: auth tokens, dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, phone numbers, usernames. The breach dates from Aug 7, 2016; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 15, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a Wishbone (2016) 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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