Zomato data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the May 2017 breach of Zomato. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Zomato data breach exposed 16,472,873 accounts from zomato.com in May 2017. The data taken includes passwords, usernames and email addresses.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 4 Sep 2017, 4 months later. It is the 105th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Zomato’s breach included 3 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. |
| 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, Zomato among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Zomato password.If the account still exists, sign in at Zomato (zomato.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 Zomato.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, 4 months later.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Edmodo, May 2017, 43 million accounts
- LiveJournal, January 2017, 26 million accounts
- Dueling Network, March 2017, 6.5 million accounts
- Bell (2017 breach), May 2017, 2.2 million accounts
- Coinmama, August 2017, 478,824 accounts
- Dubsmash, December 2018, 162 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
- zomato.com, Zomato’s website