000webhost data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the March 2015 breach of 000webhost. For every breach, see Breaches.
The 000webhost data breach exposed 14,936,670 accounts from 000webhost.com in March 2015. The data taken includes passwords, names, email addresses and IP addresses.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 26 Oct 2015, 8 months later. It is the 112th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
000webhost’s breach included 4 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Passwords | Criminals try leaked passwords on email, banking and shopping sites, because people reuse them. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| IP addresses | Roughly where you were when you used the service. |
What to do
- Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, 000webhost among them, without showing the data.
- Change your 000webhost password.If the account still exists, sign in at 000webhost (000webhost.com) and change it.
- Change it anywhere you used the same one.Start with your email, then banking and shopping. Leaked passwords are tried on other sites automatically, within days.
- Use a password manager and two-step sign-in.A different password for every site means one breach can’t open the rest. Two-step sign-in stops a leaked password working on its own.
- Distrust messages that mention 000webhost.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 8 months later.
- : the entry was last updated.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- ClearVoice Surveys, August 2015, 15 million accounts
- MyFHA, February 2015, 972,629 accounts
- Whitepages, June 2016, 12 million accounts
- CashCrate, November 2016, 6.8 million accounts
- StreetEasy, June 2016, 988,230 accounts
- Tuned Global, March 2016, 985,586 accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “000webhost”, Have I Been Pwned, added 26 Oct 2015. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- 000webhost.com, 000webhost’s website