Security News > 2020 > July > LiveAuctioneers Data Breach Impacts 3.4 Million Users
Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers has revealed a data breach that likely impacted approximately 3.4 million of its users.
"As of July 11th, 2020, our cybersecurity team has confirmed that an unauthorized third party accessed certain user data through a security breach at a LiveAuctioneers data processing partner that occurred on June 19, 2020," the online marketplace notes.
The bidding portal has prompted a platform-wide password reset operation, and all users will have to set a new password when first accessing their accounts.
Security researchers at CloudSEK say they've found on a surface web database marketplace a post advertising the information of roughly 3.4 million LiveAuctioneers users, likely pointing to the number of affected users.
"The poster is selling 3.4 million users' data and 3 million cracked username password combinations. The seller has shared 15 user records and 24 email-password combinations to support their claims," CloudSEK notes.
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