Zomato data breach: 16.5M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-09-04
In May 2017, the restaurant guide website Zomato was hacked resulting in the exposure of almost 17 million accounts. The data was consequently redistributed online and contains email addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords (the password hash was not present on all accounts). This data was provided to HIBP by whitehat security researcher and data analyst Adam Davies. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from May 17, 2017; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Sep 4, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a Zomato 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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