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James data breach

From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the March 2020 breach of James. For every breach, see Breaches.

The James data breach exposed 1,541,284 accounts from jamesdelivery.com.br in March 2020. The data taken includes passwords, email addresses, geographic locations and latitude and longitude pairs.[1]

Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 5 Nov 2020, 7 months later. It is the 341st largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.

What was exposed

James’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.
Email addressesExpect scam emails that name the company to look genuine.
Geographic locationsRoughly where you live.
Latitude and longitude pairsPersonal 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, James among them, without showing the data.
  2. Change your James password.If the account still exists, sign in at James (jamesdelivery.com.br) 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 James.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, 7 months later.

Similar breaches

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

  • Wattpad, June 2020, 269 million accounts
  • Nitro, September 2020, 77 million accounts
  • Tokopedia, April 2020, 71 million accounts
  • Mathway, January 2020, 26 million accounts
  • bigbasket, October 2020, 25 million accounts
  • ShopBack, September 2020, 21 million accounts

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

References

  1. ^ Troy Hunt. “James”, Have I Been Pwned, added 5 Nov 2020. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.