Coachella Data Breach

What happened

In February 2017, hundreds of thousands of records from the Coachella music festival were discovered being sold online. Allegedly taken from a combination of the main Coachella website and their vBulletin-based message board, the data included almost 600k usernames, IP and email addresses and salted hashes of passwords (MD5 in the case of the message board).

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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