PoliceOne Data Breach

What happened

In February 2017, the law enforcement website PoliceOne confirmed they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained over 700k accounts which appeared for sale by a data broker and included email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 password hashes. The file the data was contained in indicated the original breach dated back to July 2014.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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