Спрашивай.ру data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the May 2015 breach of Спрашивай.ру. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Спрашивай.ру data breach exposed 3,474,763 accounts from sprashivai.ru in May 2015. The data taken includes passwords, dates of birth, email addresses and genders and 3 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 12 May 2015, within a month. It is the 246th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Спрашивай.ру’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. |
| Dates of birth | Used to prove who you are to banks and phone companies. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Genders | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| Geographic locations | Roughly where you live. |
| IP addresses | Roughly where you were when you used the service. |
| Spoken languages | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
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, Спрашивай.ру among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Спрашивай.ру password.If the account still exists, sign in at Спрашивай.ру (sprashivai.ru) 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 Спрашивай.ру.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, within a month.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- ClearVoice Surveys, August 2015, 15 million accounts
- Funimation, July 2016, 2.5 million accounts
- Linux Mint, February 2016, 144,989 accounts
- Malwarebytes, November 2014, 111,623 accounts
- Evite, August 2013, 101 million accounts
- Neopets, May 2013, 27 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Спрашивай.ру”, Have I Been Pwned, added 12 May 2015. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- sprashivai.ru, Спрашивай.ру’s website