MovieBoxPro data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the April 2024 breach of MovieBoxPro. For every breach, see Breaches.
The MovieBoxPro data breach exposed 6,009,014 accounts from movieboxpro.app in April 2024. The data taken includes usernames and email addresses.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 30 Apr 2024, within a month. It is the 177th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
MovieBoxPro’s breach included 2 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| 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. |
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, MovieBoxPro among them, without showing the data.
- Turn on two-step sign-in.On MovieBoxPro (movieboxpro.app) and your email, so leaked sign-in details aren’t enough on their own.
- Distrust messages that mention MovieBoxPro.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:
- The Post Millennial, May 2024, 57 million accounts
- Internet Archive, September 2024, 31 million accounts
- Trello, January 2024, 15 million accounts
- Zacks (2024), June 2024, 12 million accounts
- Earth 2, October 2024, 420,961 accounts
- The Real World, November 2024, 324,382 accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “MovieBoxPro”, Have I Been Pwned, added 30 Apr 2024. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- movieboxpro.app, MovieBoxPro’s website