Raychat data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the January 2021 breach of Raychat. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Raychat data breach exposed 938,981 accounts from raychat.ir in January 2021. The data taken includes passwords, names, email addresses, browser user agent details and IP addresses.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 4 Jul 2021, 5 months later. It is the 425th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Raychat’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. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Browser user agent details | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| 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, Raychat among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Raychat password.If the account still exists, sign in at Raychat (raychat.ir) 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 Raychat.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, 5 months later.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- ParkMobile, March 2021, 21 million accounts
- Descomplica, March 2021, 4.8 million accounts
- Gemplex, February 2021, 4.6 million accounts
- FlexBooker, December 2021, 3.8 million accounts
- SlideTeam, April 2021, 1.5 million accounts
- Ducks Unlimited, January 2021, 1.3 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
- raychat.ir, Raychat’s website