Nival data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the February 2016 breach of Nival. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Nival data breach exposed 1,535,473 accounts from nival.com in February 2016. The data taken includes usernames, dates of birth, names and email addresses and 4 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 3 Mar 2016, within a month. It is the 342nd largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Nival’s breach included 8 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. |
| Dates of birth | Used to prove who you are to banks and phone companies. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Avatars | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| Genders | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| Spoken languages | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| 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, Nival among them, without showing the data.
- Turn on two-step sign-in.On Nival (nival.com) and your email, so leaked sign-in details aren’t enough on their own.
- Distrust messages that mention Nival.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:
- 500px, July 2018, 15 million accounts
- Pluto TV, October 2018, 3.2 million accounts
- Deezer, April 2019, 229 million accounts
- Neopets, May 2013, 27 million accounts
- TaiLieu, November 2019, 7.3 million accounts
- DLH.net, July 2016, 3.3 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
- nival.com, Nival’s website