mail.ru Dump
HighReportedMedia and leisure
In September 2014, mail.ru Dump suffered a data breach. 17 million accounts were affected. The exposed data includes email addresses and passwords. Have I Been Pwned flags this breach as unverified: its origin could not be confirmed.
- Disclosed on
- September 12, 2014
- Incident dated
- September 10, 2014
- Accounts affected
- 17M
- Sector
- Media and leisure
- Country
- Russia
- Cause
- Undisclosed
Exposed data
- Email address
- Password (hashed)
You are only affected if you had an account or an order with this organisation.
What you can do
- Change that password — and everywhere you reused it. That is how a leak spreads to your other accounts.
- Turn on two-factor authentication on the affected accounts: a stolen password is then no longer enough.
- Expect phishing attempts quoting your name and this company. A message that knows your details is not legitimate for that reason.
- You can ask the organisation exactly what was exposed about you (right of access), and complain to the DPA if no answer comes within a month.
Sources
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