Tokopedia data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the April 2020 breach of Tokopedia. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Tokopedia data breach exposed 71,443,698 accounts from tokopedia.com in April 2020. The data taken includes passwords, dates of birth, names, email addresses and genders.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 2 May 2020, within a month. It is the 34th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Tokopedia’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. |
| Dates of birth | Used to prove who you are to banks and phone companies. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Genders | 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, Tokopedia among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Tokopedia password.If the account still exists, sign in at Tokopedia (tokopedia.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 Tokopedia.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.
- : the entry was last updated.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Wattpad, June 2020, 269 million accounts
- bigbasket, October 2020, 25 million accounts
- Wishbone (2020), January 2020, 9.7 million accounts
- Animal Jam, October 2020, 7.1 million accounts
- Scentbird, June 2020, 5.8 million accounts
- Dave, June 2020, 3 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Tokopedia”, Have I Been Pwned, added 2 May 2020. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- tokopedia.com, Tokopedia’s website