Fantasy Football Hub data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the October 2021 breach of Fantasy Football Hub. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Fantasy Football Hub data breach exposed 66,479 accounts from fantasyfootballhub.co.uk in October 2021. The data taken includes passwords, usernames, purchases and names and 2 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 7 Oct 2021, within a month. It is the 592nd largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Fantasy Football Hub’s breach included 6 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. |
| Usernames | Half of a login. With a reused password, it opens other accounts. |
| Purchases | Shows what you buy, which makes fake order and refund scams convincing. |
| 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, Fantasy Football Hub among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Fantasy Football Hub password.If the account still exists, sign in at Fantasy Football Hub (fantasyfootballhub.co.uk) 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 Fantasy Football Hub.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:
- Imavex, August 2021, 878,209 accounts
- ClickASnap, September 2022, 3.3 million accounts
- StockX, July 2019, 6.8 million accounts
- Vodafone, November 2013, 56,021 accounts
- Descomplica, March 2021, 4.8 million accounts
- Liker, March 2021, 465,141 accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Fantasy Football Hub”, Have I Been Pwned, added 7 Oct 2021. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- fantasyfootballhub.co.uk, Fantasy Football Hub’s website