Cutout.Pro data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the February 2024 breach of Cutout.Pro. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Cutout.Pro data breach exposed 19,972,829 accounts from cutout.pro in February 2024. 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 28 Feb 2024, within a month. It is the 95th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Cutout.Pro’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, Cutout.Pro among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Cutout.Pro password.If the account still exists, sign in at Cutout.Pro (cutout.pro) 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 Cutout.Pro.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, within a month.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- The Post Millennial, May 2024, 57 million accounts
- Zacks (2024), June 2024, 12 million accounts
- SurveyLama, February 2024, 4.4 million accounts
- LuLu, July 2024, 2.8 million accounts
- MC2 Data, August 2024, 2.1 million accounts
- Central Tickets, July 2024, 722,860 accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Cutout.Pro”, Have I Been Pwned, added 28 Feb 2024. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- cutout.pro, Cutout.Pro’s website