HTC Mania data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the January 2020 breach of HTC Mania. For every breach, see Breaches.
The HTC Mania data breach exposed 1,488,089 accounts from htcmania.com in January 2020. The data taken includes historical passwords, passwords, usernames and dates of birth and 2 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 6 Apr 2020, 3 months later. It is the 346th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
HTC Mania’s breach included 6 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Historical passwords | Part of how you sign in. |
| 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. |
| Dates of birth | Used to prove who you are to banks and phone companies. |
| 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, HTC Mania among them, without showing the data.
- Change your HTC Mania password.If the account still exists, sign in at HTC Mania (htcmania.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 HTC Mania.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, 3 months later.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Wattpad, June 2020, 269 million accounts
- Wishbone (2020), January 2020, 9.7 million accounts
- Animal Jam, October 2020, 7.1 million accounts
- NetGalley, December 2020, 1.4 million accounts
- TrueFire, February 2020, 599,667 accounts
- RaidForums, September 2020, 478,604 accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “HTC Mania”, Have I Been Pwned, added 6 Apr 2020. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- htcmania.com, HTC Mania’s website