Popular website Open Subtitles has been breached. The impact so far: almost seven million accounts “breached and ransomed” back in August. New bre

Open Subtitles breach: The dangers of password reuse

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2022-01-22 06:30:04

Popular website Open Subtitles has been breached. The impact so far: almost seven million accounts “breached and ransomed” back in August.

New breach: Open Subtitles had almost 7M accounts breached and ransomed in Aug. Data included email and IP addresses, usernames and unsalted MD5 password hashes. 75% were already in @haveibeenpwned. Read more: https://t.co/bXCD897HRC

There’s a long and detailed post on Open Subtitles’ forum with regard to what’s happened. Notable points of interest:

“He gained access to all users’ data – email, username, password…He promised the data would be erased and he would help us secure the site after the payment.

One point of contention relates to paying off the ransom. Some coverage is claiming they paid up, but then the data eventually leaked anyway. The language in the post reads a little ambiguously:

This one falls under the familiar banner of “password reuse is bad”. Lots of people do it, and almost everyone has likely reused login details on more than one site without realising it.

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