Whitepages Data Breach

What happened

In mid-2016, the telephone and address directory service Whitepages was among a raft of sites that were breached and their data then sold in early-2019. The data included over 11 million unique email addresses alongside names and passwords stored as either a SHA-1 or bcrypt hash.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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