MyFHA data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the February 2015 breach of MyFHA. For every breach, see Breaches.
The MyFHA data breach exposed 972,629 accounts from myfha.net in February 2015. The data taken includes passwords, credit status information, income levels and names and 5 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 9 Aug 2018, 4 years later. It is the 423rd largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
MyFHA’s breach included 9 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. |
| Credit status information | Useful for payment fraud. |
| Income levels | Useful for payment fraud. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Physical addresses | Used to prove who you are, and for scam letters and parcels. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| IP addresses | Roughly where you were when you used the service. |
| Loan information | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| Personal descriptions | 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, MyFHA among them, without showing the data.
- Change your MyFHA password.If the account still exists, sign in at MyFHA (myfha.net) 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 MyFHA.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, 4 years later.
Breaches often stay hidden for a long time. Until it came out, people in it had no reason to change anything.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Exactis, June 2018, 132 million accounts
- Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail, December 2021, 5.5 million accounts
- Prosper, September 2025, 18 million accounts
- ClearVoice Surveys, August 2015, 15 million accounts
- CashCrate, November 2016, 6.8 million accounts
- Tuned Global, March 2016, 985,586 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
- myfha.net, MyFHA’s website