Dailymotion Data Breach

What happened

In October 2016, the video sharing platform Dailymotion suffered a data breach. The attack led to the exposure of more than 85 million user accounts and included email addresses, usernames and bcrypt hashes of passwords.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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