Open Subtitles data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the August 2021 breach of Open Subtitles. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Open Subtitles data breach exposed 6,783,158 accounts from opensubtitles.org in August 2021. The data taken includes passwords, usernames, email addresses, geographic locations and IP addresses.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 19 Jan 2022, 6 months later. It is the 162nd largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Open Subtitles’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. |
| Geographic locations | Roughly where you live. |
| IP addresses | Roughly where you were when you used the service. |
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, Open Subtitles among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Open Subtitles password.If the account still exists, sign in at Open Subtitles (opensubtitles.org) 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 Open Subtitles.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, 6 months later.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Daily Quiz, January 2021, 8 million accounts
- DatPiff, August 2021, 7.5 million accounts
- IDC Games, March 2021, 4 million accounts
- MangaDex, March 2021, 3 million accounts
- Imavex, August 2021, 878,209 accounts
- Liker, March 2021, 465,141 accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Open Subtitles”, Have I Been Pwned, added 19 Jan 2022. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- opensubtitles.org, Open Subtitles’s website