Wanelo data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the December 2018 breach of Wanelo. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Wanelo data breach exposed 23,165,793 accounts from wanelo.com in December 2018. The data taken includes passwords, names, physical addresses, email addresses and IP addresses.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 30 Sep 2019, 10 months later. It is the 81st largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Wanelo’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. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Physical addresses | Used to prove who you are, and for scam letters and parcels. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| 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, Wanelo among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Wanelo password.If the account still exists, sign in at Wanelo (wanelo.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 Wanelo.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, 10 months later.
- : the entry was last updated.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Chegg, April 2018, 40 million accounts
- Fashion Nexus, July 2018, 1.3 million accounts
- Mortal Online, June 2018, 606,637 accounts
- Wendy's, March 2018, 52,485 accounts
- CafePress, February 2019, 23 million accounts
- StockX, July 2019, 6.8 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- wanelo.com, Wanelo’s website