Aptoide
HighConfirmedRetail
In April 2020, Aptoide suffered a data breach. 20 million accounts were affected. The exposed data includes connection data, email addresses, names and passwords.
- Disclosed on
- April 19, 2020
- Incident dated
- April 13, 2020
- Accounts affected
- 20M
- Sector
- Retail
- Country
- International or undetermined
- Cause
- Undisclosed
Exposed data
- Connection data (IP, logs)
- Email address
- Full name
- Password (hashed)
You are only affected if you had an account or an order with this organisation.
What you can do
- Change that password — and everywhere you reused it. That is how a leak spreads to your other accounts.
- Turn on two-factor authentication on the affected accounts: a stolen password is then no longer enough.
- Expect phishing attempts quoting your name and this company. A message that knows your details is not legitimate for that reason.
- You can ask the organisation exactly what was exposed about you (right of access), and complain to the DPA if no answer comes within a month.
Sources
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