WPSandbox Data Breach

What happened

In November 2018, the WordPress sandboxing service that allows people to create temporary websites WP Sandbox discovered their service was being used to host a phishing site attempting to collect Microsoft OneDrive accounts. After identifying the malicious site, WP Sandbox took it offline, contacted the 858 people who provided information to it then self-submitted their addresses to HIBP. The phishing page requested both email addresses and passwords.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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