NVIDIA data breach

From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated 2 Mar 2022

This article is about the February 2022 breach of NVIDIA. For every breach, see Breaches.

NVIDIA

The NVIDIA data breach exposed 71,335 accounts from nvidia.com in February 2022. The data taken includes passwords and email addresses.^[1]

Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 2 Mar 2022, within a month. It is the 590th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.

What was exposed

NVIDIA’s breach included 2 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.
Email addresses	Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine.

Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, NVIDIA among them, without showing the data.
Change your NVIDIA password.If the account still exists, sign in at NVIDIA (nvidia.com) 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 NVIDIA.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.

23 Feb 2022: the breach, as best it can be dated.
2 Mar 2022: Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, within a month.

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

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

^ Troy Hunt. “NVIDIA”, Have I Been Pwned, added 2 Mar 2022. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.