Lifebear Data Breach

What happened

In early 2019, the Japanese schedule app Lifebear appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace amongst a raft of other hacked websites. The breach exposed almost 3.7M unique email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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