Legendas.TV Data Breach

What happened

In October 2017, the now defunct Brazilian service for retrieving subtitles in Portuguese Legendas.TV suffered a data breach that exposed nearly 4M customer records. The impacted data included names, usernames, email and IP addresses and unsalted SHA-1 hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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