Roll20 data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the December 2018 breach of Roll20. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Roll20 data breach exposed 3,994,436 accounts from roll20.net in December 2018. The data taken includes passwords, partial credit card data, names, email addresses and IP addresses.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 19 Jul 2019, 7 months later. It is the 229th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Roll20’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. |
| Partial credit card data | Not enough to spend, but enough to make a fake call from your bank convincing. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| 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, Roll20 among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Roll20 password.If the account still exists, sign in at Roll20 (roll20.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 Roll20.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
- Watch your statements.Report anything you don’t recognise to your bank, and ask for a new card if full card numbers leaked.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 7 months later.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- EatStreet, May 2019, 6.4 million accounts
- Home Chef, February 2020, 8.8 million accounts
- Swvl, June 2020, 4.2 million accounts
- Bonobos, August 2020, 2.8 million accounts
- Lazada RedMart, July 2020, 1.1 million accounts
- Descomplica, March 2021, 4.8 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
- roll20.net, Roll20’s website