Mate1.com
HighConfirmedRetail
In February 2016, Mate1.com suffered a data breach. 27 million accounts were affected. The exposed data includes dates of birth, email addresses, postal addresses, employment data, names, passwords, account identifiers and connection data.
- Disclosed on
- April 14, 2016
- Incident dated
- February 29, 2016
- Accounts affected
- 27M
- Sector
- Retail
- Country
- International or undetermined
- Cause
- Undisclosed
Exposed data
- Date of birth
- Email address
- Postal address
- Employment data
- Full name
- Password (hashed)
- Customer ID
- Connection data (IP, logs)
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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