By Dave McKay | July 29, 2020
Personal Data from 18 Data Breaches Offered to Hackers - At no cost!
A threat actor has offered the databases from 18 breaches to other hackers without cost. The figures are mind-boggling—386 million personal records. Usually the data is sold to other cybercriminals. They buy it to perpetrate identity and fraud based crimes, and to use it in phishing campaigns and other email-based scams.
The databases came from breaches at these companies:
- Appen.com
- Chatbooks.com
- Dave.com
- Drizly.com
- GGumim.co.kr
- Havenly.com
- Hurb.com
- Indabamusic.com
- Ivoy.mx
- Mathway.com
- Proctoru.com
- Promo.com
- Rewards1.com
- Scentbird.com
- Swvl.com
- TrueFire.com
- Vakinha.com.br
- Wattpad
If you are a user of any of these companies or services, change your password now. If you’ve been cavalier enough to use a password in more than one place on the web, change that password everywhere you’ve used it.
Make it a unique and robust password on each site. If you have too many passwords to remember, use a password manager such as 1Password or LastPass.
Using a different password for every one of your online accounts means a breach on one site cannot be used to access any of your other accounts. If you use the same password all over the web, finding the password in one breach means the threat actors have the keys to your kingdom.
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Source: BleepingComputer