Security News > 2021 > April > Reverb discloses data breach exposing musicians' personal info
Popular musical instrument marketplace Reverb has suffered a data breach after an unsecured database containing customer information was exposed online.
Reverb is the largest online marketplace devoted to selling new, used, and vintage musical instruments and equipment.
Today, Reverb customers began receiving data breach notifications stating that customer information was exposed, including customers' names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.
Diachenko told BleepingComputer that by the time he confirmed the database belonged to Reverb, the site had already secured the database.
As your passwords were not exposed in this breach, Reverb is not resetting them.
Reverb recommends users routinely reset their passwords for better security.
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