Yet another data breach, this one affecting over 133 MILLION records. If you’re on the list? Here’s what you can do.
- Change your password. Immediately.
- Do NOT use duplicate passwords – something unique
- No post-it notes for your passwords. And shred papers that contain sensitive information.
The companies whose databases are allegedly being peddled include game sites, food delivery services, Soccer streaming, online fashion and loans. Out of the 14, only four are known to have been breached: Home Chef, Minted, Tokopedia and Zoosk.
Home Chef, a meal delivery service, confirmed a data breach two weeks after a hacker group named Shiny Hunters listed a database of 8 million customer records on a dark web marketplace. Shiny Hunters was the same group that claimed to be selling Zoosk’s records – along with nine other companies’ records, for a total of 73 million user records – in May. Read more here:
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