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8fit data breach

From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the July 2018 breach of 8fit. For every breach, see Breaches.

The 8fit data breach exposed 15,025,407 accounts from 8fit.com in July 2018. The data taken includes passwords, names, email addresses and genders and 2 more kinds of data.[1]

Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 21 Mar 2019, 9 months later. It is the 110th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.

What was exposed

8fit’s breach included 6 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:

DataWhat it’s used for
PasswordsCriminals try leaked passwords on email, banking and shopping sites, because people reuse them.
NamesMakes scam messages personal enough to believe.
Email addressesExpect scam emails that name the company to look genuine.
GendersPersonal details that make scam messages more convincing.
Geographic locationsRoughly where you live.
IP addressesRoughly where you were when you used the service.

What to do

  1. Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, 8fit among them, without showing the data.
  2. Change your 8fit password.If the account still exists, sign in at 8fit (8fit.com) and change it.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Distrust messages that mention 8fit.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, 9 months later.

Similar breaches

Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:

  • Dubsmash, December 2018, 162 million accounts
  • Houzz, May 2018, 49 million accounts
  • ShareThis, July 2018, 41 million accounts
  • Chegg, April 2018, 40 million accounts
  • Poshmark, May 2018, 36 million accounts
  • HauteLook, August 2018, 29 million accounts

See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.

References

  1. ^ Troy Hunt. “8fit”, Have I Been Pwned, added 21 Mar 2019. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.