Pluto TV Data Breach

What happened

In October 2018, the internet television service Pluto TV suffered a data breach which was then shared extensively in hacking communities. Pluto TV "decided not to proactively inform users of the breach" which contained 3.2M unique email and IP addresses, names, usernames, genders, dates of birth and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Pluto 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 Pluto TV — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Exposed identity data raises identity-theft risk — consider credit monitoring or a credit freeze.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.