Phone House España Data Breach
What Happened
In April 2021, the Spanish retailer Phone House allegedly suffered a ransomware attack that also exposed significant volumes of customer data. Attributed to the Babuk ransomware, a collection of data alleged to be a subset of a larger corpus was posted to a dark web site and contained 5.2M email addresses along with names, nationalities, genders, dates of birth, phone numbers and physical addresses. Phone House has been threatened with further releases if a ransom is not paid.
Compromised Data
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Affected Accounts:
5.2 million
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Breach Occurred:
April 2021
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Added to HIBP:
22 Apr 2021
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If you haven’t already changed the password affected by this breach, do so immediately on every account where it was used.
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