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DatPiff data breach

From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the August 2021 breach of DatPiff. For every breach, see Breaches.

The DatPiff data breach exposed 7,476,940 accounts from datpiff.com in August 2021. The data taken includes passwords, security questions and answers, usernames and email addresses.[1]

Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 4 Jan 2022, 4 months later. It is the 152nd largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.

What was exposed

DatPiff’s breach included 4 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.
Security questions and answersThe answers reset passwords elsewhere, and you can’t change your mother’s maiden name.
UsernamesHalf of a login. With a reused password, it opens other accounts.
Email addressesExpect scam emails that name the company to look genuine.

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, DatPiff among them, without showing the data.
  2. Change your DatPiff password.If the account still exists, sign in at DatPiff (datpiff.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. Change your security answers.Wherever you used the same ones. They don’t have to be true: treat them like extra passwords.
  6. Distrust messages that mention DatPiff.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, 4 months later.

Similar breaches

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

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

References

  1. ^ Troy Hunt. “DatPiff”, Have I Been Pwned, added 4 Jan 2022. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.