Tout Data Breach

What happened

In approximately September 2014, the now defunct social networking service Tout suffered a data breach. The breach subsequently appeared years later and included 653k unique email addresses, names, IP addresses, the location of the user, their bio and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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