Data breach · August 2021

Was I in the DatPiff breach?

DatPiff is a rap mixtape website. Its breach happened in August 2021 and exposed 7,476,940 accounts. It included passwords, security questions and answers, email addresses and usernames. If you had an account there by August 2021, check your address below to see whether it is one of them.

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01

What happened?

Late in 2021 lists of email addresses and plain text passwords from the site were offered for sale on a well known hacking forum. The passwords had been cracked, and the data was said to come from an older breach. The original data was said to hold user names, security questions with their answers, and MD5-hashed passwords using one fixed salt.

Organisation
DatPiff, a rap mixtape website (datpiff.com)
When it happened
August 2021
Added to monitored breach databases
4 January 2022
Accounts in the data
7,476,940
What was exposed
passwords, security questions and answers, email addresses and usernames
02

What was exposed, and what does it mean for me?

  • Your passwordpasswords and security questions and answers

    The password for this account was in the data, either as written or in a stored form that can often be reversed when the password is short or common. Anyone with the list can try it on your email, bank and shopping accounts.

  • Your email addressemail addresses

    Expect messages that look like they come from this service or another one you use, written to get you to click a link or sign in on a fake page.

  • Other detailsusernames

    On their own these carry less risk, but they make a scam message sound more personal.

03

What should I do now?

In this order, for what this breach exposed.

1. Change the password, and every reuse of it

  • Change your DatPiff password if the account still exists. Then change the same password on every other account where you used it, starting with your email.
  • Use a different password for each account. A password manager makes that practical: it creates long passwords and remembers them for you.
  • Turn on a second sign-in step, such as a code from an app or a security key, for your email, bank and social accounts. Your email comes first, because every password reset goes to it.
  • Where you used the same security questions or hints elsewhere, change the answers to ones nobody could look up. They do not have to be true.

2. Expect phishing

  • Be wary of messages that urge you to act fast, ask for personal details, or link to an address that is slightly off.
  • If a message might be genuine, do not use its links or phone numbers. Go to the site by typing its address yourself.
04

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Where does this come from?

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