StreetEasy data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the June 2016 breach of StreetEasy. For every breach, see Breaches.
The StreetEasy data breach exposed 988,230 accounts from streeteasy.com in June 2016. The data taken includes passwords, usernames, names and email addresses.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 6 Oct 2019, 3 years later. It is the 420th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
StreetEasy’s breach included 4 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. |
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, StreetEasy among them, without showing the data.
- Change your StreetEasy password.If the account still exists, sign in at StreetEasy (streeteasy.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 StreetEasy.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, 3 years 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:
- Bell (2017 breach), May 2017, 2.2 million accounts
- Dubsmash, December 2018, 162 million accounts
- Houzz, May 2018, 49 million accounts
- Chegg, April 2018, 40 million accounts
- Poshmark, May 2018, 36 million accounts
- EyeEm, February 2018, 20 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “StreetEasy”, Have I Been Pwned, added 6 Oct 2019. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- streeteasy.com, StreetEasy’s website