CloudPets data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the January 2017 breach of CloudPets. For every breach, see Breaches.
The CloudPets data breach exposed 583,503 accounts from cloudpets.com in January 2017. The data taken includes passwords, family members' names and email addresses.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 27 Feb 2017, 2 months later. It is the 465th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
CloudPets’s breach included 3 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. |
| Family members' names | Helps someone pretend to be you. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
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, CloudPets among them, without showing the data.
- Change your CloudPets password.If the account still exists, sign in at CloudPets (cloudpets.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 CloudPets.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, 2 months later.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Upstox, April 2021, 111,002 accounts
- MyHeritage, October 2017, 92 million accounts
- Edmodo, May 2017, 43 million accounts
- LiveJournal, January 2017, 26 million accounts
- 8tracks, June 2017, 18 million accounts
- Zomato, May 2017, 16 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “CloudPets”, Have I Been Pwned, added 27 Feb 2017. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- cloudpets.com, CloudPets’s website