ReverbNation Data Breach

What happened

In January 2014, the online service for assisting musicians to build their careers ReverbNation suffered a data breach which wasn't identified until September the following year. The breach contained over 7 million accounts with unique email addresses and salted SHA1 passwords.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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