Pampling Data Breach

What happened

In January 2020, the online clothing retailer Pampling suffered a data breach that exposed 383k unique customer email addresses. The data was later shared on a popular hacking forum and also included names, usernames and unsalted MD5 password hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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