Quote:Event-discovery application Peatix has disclosed a data breach, after ads for stolen user-account information were reportedly being circulated on Instagram and Telegram.
In a data breach notice to affected users, Peatix said it learned on Nov. 9 that user account data had been improperly accessed. Upon further investigation, the company found that user names, email addresses,salted and hashed passwords, nicknames, preferred languages, countries and time zones had been compromised.
“As part of our immediate recovery measures, we blocked unauthorized access to the database and are continuing to investigate with assistance from external security firms,” according to the data-breach notification.
Peatix is an events application that connects people to various events and social-based communities. Since it first started in 2011, the application has grown to serve more than 50,000 interest groups worldwide – with a user base of 5 million. It’s unclear how many of those users were affected by the data breach or how the breach initially occurred; Threatpost has reached out to Peatix for further information.
While Peatix uses payment processors such as PayPal and Stripe for managing user payments, full credit-card details are not stored on their databases, and Peatix said there is no evidence that this information has been compromised.
Read more: https://threatpost.com/breach-peatix-dat...am/161560/
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