Wongnai data breach: 3.9M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-11-04
In October 2020, 17 previously undisclosed data breaches appeared for sale including the Thai restaurant, hotel and attraction finding service, Wongnai. The breach exposed almost 4M unique customer records from some time during 2020 along with names, phone numbers, links to social media profiles and passwords stored as MD5 hashes. The data was self-submitted to HIBP by Wongnai. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, geographic locations, ip addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, social media profiles. The breach dates from Oct 28, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 4, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Wongnai 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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