Mecho Download Data Breach

What happened

In October 2013, the (now defunct) downloads website "Mecho Download" suffered a data breach that exposed 438k records. Data from the vBulletin based website included email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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