Retina-X Data Breach

What happened

In February 2017, the mobile device monitoring software developer Retina-X was hacked and customer data downloaded before being wiped from their servers. The incident was covered in the Motherboard article titled Inside the 'Stalkerware' Surveillance Market, Where Ordinary People Tap Each Other's Phones. The service, used to monitor mobile devices, had 71k email addresses and MD5 hashes with no salt exposed. Retina-X disclosed the incident in a blog post on April 27, 2017.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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