Staminus data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the March 2016 breach of Staminus. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Staminus data breach exposed 26,815 accounts from staminus.net in March 2016. The data taken includes passwords, usernames, credit cards and email addresses and 2 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 5 Oct 2017, 19 months later. It is the 606th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Staminus’s breach included 6 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. |
| Credit cards | Enough to spend. Ask your bank for a new card. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Support tickets | Private, and now in someone else’s hands. |
| 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, Staminus among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Staminus password.If the account still exists, sign in at Staminus (staminus.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 Staminus.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, 19 months later.
Breaches often stay hidden for a long time. Until it came out, people in it had no reason to change anything.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Vodafone, November 2013, 56,021 accounts
- Dailymotion, October 2016, 85 million accounts
- Evony, June 2016, 29 million accounts
- Tunngle, July 2016, 8.2 million accounts
- Funimation, July 2016, 2.5 million accounts
- CD Projekt RED, March 2016, 1.9 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Staminus”, Have I Been Pwned, added 5 Oct 2017. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- staminus.net, Staminus’s website