Spoutible data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the January 2024 breach of Spoutible. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Spoutible data breach exposed 207,114 accounts from spoutible.com in January 2024. The data taken includes passwords, usernames, names and email addresses and 3 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 5 Feb 2024, within a month. It is the 548th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Spoutible’s breach included 7 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. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Phone numbers | Expect scam texts and calls, and a higher risk of someone moving your number to their SIM. |
| Genders | 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, Spoutible among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Spoutible password.If the account still exists, sign in at Spoutible (spoutible.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 Spoutible.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
- Put a PIN on your phone account.Ask your mobile provider for a port-out PIN, so no one can move your number to their SIM.
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:
- The Post Millennial, May 2024, 57 million accounts
- Zacks (2024), June 2024, 12 million accounts
- Imavex, August 2021, 878,209 accounts
- Liker, March 2021, 465,141 accounts
- Wishbone (2020), January 2020, 9.7 million accounts
- 123RF, March 2020, 8.7 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Spoutible”, Have I Been Pwned, added 5 Feb 2024. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- spoutible.com, Spoutible’s website