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Eatigo data breach

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

The Eatigo data breach exposed 2,789,609 accounts from eatigo.com in October 2018. The data taken includes passwords, names, email addresses and phone numbers and 2 more kinds of data.[1]

Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 25 Aug 2021, 3 years later. It is the 272nd largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.

What was exposed

Eatigo’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.
Phone numbersExpect scam texts and calls, and a higher risk of someone moving your number to their SIM.
Social media profilesA way to reach you with scams.
GendersPersonal details that make scam messages more convincing.

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, Eatigo among them, without showing the data.
  2. Change your Eatigo password.If the account still exists, sign in at Eatigo (eatigo.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 Eatigo.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
  6. 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, 3 years later.

Breaches often stay hidden for a long time. Until it came out, people in it had no reason to change anything.

Similar breaches

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

  • ixigo, January 2019, 17 million accounts
  • EatStreet, May 2019, 6.4 million accounts
  • Wishbone (2020), January 2020, 9.7 million accounts
  • Chatbooks, March 2020, 2.5 million accounts
  • Ulmon, January 2020, 777,769 accounts
  • Liker, March 2021, 465,141 accounts

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

References

  1. ^ Troy Hunt. “Eatigo”, Have I Been Pwned, added 25 Aug 2021. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.