Aptoide Data Breach

What happened

In April 2020, the independent Android app store Aptoide suffered a data breach. The incident resulted in the exposure of 20M customer records which were subsequently shared online via a popular hacking forum. Impacted data included email and IP addresses, names, IP addresses and passwords stored as SHA-1 hashes without a salt.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Aptoide 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 Aptoide — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.