Business Acumen Magazine Data Breach

What happened

In April 2014, the Australian "Business Acumen Magazine" website was hacked by an attacker known as 1337MiR. The breach resulted in over 26,000 accounts being exposed including usernames, email addresses and password stored with a weak cryptographic hashing algorithm (MD5 with no salt).

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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