Leet data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the September 2016 breach of Leet. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Leet data breach exposed 5,081,689 accounts from leet.cc in September 2016. The data taken includes passwords, usernames, email addresses, IP addresses and website activity.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 30 Sep 2016, 1 month later. It is the 197th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Leet’s breach included 5 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. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| IP addresses | Roughly where you were when you used the service. |
| Website activity | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
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, Leet among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Leet password.If the account still exists, sign in at Leet (leet.cc) 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 Leet.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, 1 month later.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Dailymotion, October 2016, 85 million accounts
- Evony, June 2016, 29 million accounts
- Tunngle, July 2016, 8.2 million accounts
- Funimation, July 2016, 2.5 million accounts
- CD Projekt RED, March 2016, 1.9 million accounts
- OnRPG, July 2016, 1 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- leet.cc, Leet’s website