Personal Data Leak Monitor

Ster-Kinekor data breach

1.62M accounts from Ster-Kinekor (sterkinekor.co.za) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
March 9, 2017
Accounts
1,619,544
Added to the database
March 13, 2017

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What leaked

Dates of birthEmail addressesGendersNamesPasswordsPhone numbersPhysical addressesSpoken languages

What to do now

  1. Please change that password, and anywhere you reused it
  2. If your birthday is a PIN, kindly change it
  3. Do not tap links in emails claiming to be that service
  4. Expect scam emails that use your real name
  5. Be alert to fake delivery or unpaid-bill texts and calls

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About this breach

In 2016, the South African cinema company Ster-Kinekor had a security flaw which leaked a large amount of customer data via an enumeration vulnerability in the API of their old website. Whilst more than 6 million accounts were leaked by the flaw, the exposed data only contained 1.6 million unique email addresses. The data also included extensive personal information such as names, addresses, birthdates, genders and plain text passwords.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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