HomeRefill Data Breach

What happened

In April 2020, now defunct Brazilian e-commerce platform HomeRefill suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 187k unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, dates of birth and salted password hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your HomeRefill 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 HomeRefill — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Stay alert for smishing (SMS phishing) and SIM-swap attempts using your phone number.
• Exposed identity data raises identity-theft risk — consider credit monitoring or a credit freeze.