299,293
Records Exposed
Feb 2020
Date of Breach
Database
Breach Type
Sep 2024
Added to Database
About This Breach
The guitar lesson website TrueFire suffered a data breach in February 2020, affecting 600,000 users. The breach exposed a significant amount of personal information, including emails, names, physical addresses, and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. This incident underscores the importance of using strong encryption algorithms to protect user data, especially when dealing with sensitive information such as passwords.
Compromised Data Types
Country
United States
Language
English
Password Storage
MD5
Category
Internet Services
Indexed On
Sep 11, 2024
Breach Type
Database
What Should You Do?
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Sign Up for Pro- Change your password immediately on TrueFire and any other site where you used the same password. Use a unique, strong password for each account.
- Watch for phishing emails targeting your inbox. Attackers may use your exposed email address to send convincing scam messages.
- Be alert to smishing attacks (SMS phishing). Scammers may text you pretending to be banks or service providers.
- Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on all important accounts to add an extra layer of security.
- Use a password manager to generate and store unique, strong passwords for every account.
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