Kickstarter Data Breach

What happened

In February 2014, the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained almost 5.2 million unique email addresses, usernames and salted SHA1 hashes of passwords.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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