KinoKong Data Breach

What happened

In March 2021, the Russian online streaming service KinoKong suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed over 800k unique email addresses along with names, usernames, IP addresses and MD5 password hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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