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Today Firefox Monitor warned me about a data breach at Gravatar with a hack perpetrated 3 October 2020:
https://monitor.firefox.com/breach-details/Gravatar
Allegedly no passwords were stolen, only email addresses were compromised.
Still, security, you know …
As luck would have it, since the breach I’ve changed my possibly compromised respective password multiple times. It’s a trivial effort to appease my paranoia.
Dec.6.2021
As a result of the vulnerability, “167 million names, usernames and MD5 hashes of email addresses used to reference users’ avatars were subsequently scraped and distributed within the hacking community,” HaveIBeenPwned said.
Of the MD5 hashes, just under 114 million were cracked and distributed alongside the source hash, thus disclosing the original email address and accompanying data.
https[://]www[.]itnews[.]com[.]au/news/gravatar-profile-add-on-leaks-data-on-millions-of-users-573607
Is this still a good way to check? (recommended some time back.. discussed quite often at bleepingcomputer..) https://haveibeenpwned.com/
It corroborates with Firefox Monitor.
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