CafePress data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the February 2019 breach of CafePress. For every breach, see Breaches.
The CafePress data breach exposed 23,205,290 accounts from cafepress.com in February 2019. The data taken includes passwords, names, physical addresses, email addresses and phone numbers.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 5 Aug 2019, 5 months later. It is the 80th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
CafePress’s breach included 5 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. |
| Physical addresses | Used to prove who you are, and for scam letters and parcels. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Phone numbers | Expect scam texts and calls, and a higher risk of someone moving your number to their SIM. |
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, CafePress among them, without showing the data.
- Change your CafePress password.If the account still exists, sign in at CafePress (cafepress.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 CafePress.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
- Put a PIN on your phone account.Ask your mobile provider for a port-out PIN, so no one can move your number to their SIM.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 5 months later.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- EatStreet, May 2019, 6.4 million accounts
- Chegg, April 2018, 40 million accounts
- bigbasket, October 2020, 25 million accounts
- 123RF, March 2020, 8.7 million accounts
- Minted, May 2020, 4.4 million accounts
- DriveSure, December 2020, 3.7 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “CafePress”, Have I Been Pwned, added 5 Aug 2019. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- cafepress.com, CafePress’s website