15 September, 2016

ClixSense Hacked Exposed 6.6Million Passwords in Plaintext

September 15, 2016 3 Comments

One of the best site who pays users for viewing the ads, complete survey, suffers from massive data breach.
The data breach has exposed plaintext passwords, usernames, email addresses, banking information, first name, last name, payment history, ip address, Home address and all others personal information of more than 6.6 Million ClixSense users.

Hacker already posted more than 2.2 Million people's personal and sensitive data on PasteBin over the weekend. And the remaining 4.4 Million account put for sale. The PasteBin Paste has been removed by PasteBin. The

Tory Hunt Operator of Have I Been Pwned ? breach notification service said he reviewed the file and verified the authenticity of the data taken from ClixSense.

After getting access to database hacker copied almost all data of users and ran SQL code to change account names to "hacked account," deleted several forum posts, as well as set account balances of users to $0.00.

Reaction from ClixSense
ClixSense admitted the data breach and the Owner of ClixSense - Jim Grago Admitted that the database of ClixSense contained roughly 6.6 Million account and the company became aware about data breach, while talking with Ars Technica.
Not only data breach he admitted that all the ClixSense domain and email had been compromised.

I am User of ClixSense, What can I do To Be Safe?
ClixSense issued a mandatory password reset for all users shortly after the trouble began. We can suggest you to change your password, security question as much fast as you can. You should change passwords of all service if you used same password. Actually the data breached because of ClixSense's fault you won't be completely secure till they find and fix the way, from that hacker leaked data.