APK.TW Data Breach

What happened

In September 2022, the Taiwanese Android forum APK.TW suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 2.5M unique email addresses along with IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 password hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your APK.TW password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
• Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
• Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing APK.TW — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.