Data Breach: LiveAuctioneers

Fri, 11 Sep 2020 11:19:48 -0400
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On June 19, 2020 an online antique Marketplace, LiveAuctioneers, suffered a data breach. Approximately 3.4 million records were leaked. The records include names, email and IP addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.The information was sold online and redistributed to a hacking forum.

29 UMBC accounts were victims of this breach. The victims are being notified via their UMBC emails and/or their alternate emails. If you have a LiveAuctioneers account, please contact them to see if you have been affected by this breach. To see if you were involved in any other breach visit: https://haveibeenpwned.com/.

More about LiveAuctioneers data breach:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/liveauctioneers-reports-data-breach-after-user-records-sold-online/

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/liveauctioneers-data-breach-millions-of-cracked-passwords-for-sale-say-researchers

If you have any questions or concerns email us: security@umbc.edu

Information about this breach was provided to us by Have I Been Pwned(HIBP).

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