Weebly, a free website builder suffered a data breach that compromised the personal information of 43 million users.
An unauthorized party obtained email addresses and/or usernames, IP addresses and encrypted (bcrypt hashed) passwords.
The exposed data included information like username, email address, password, gender, location, Facebook name, Twitter ID, and IP address.
Weebly requested that its users enable two-step verification (2SV) at all times.
Source: https://grahamcluley.com/data-breach-weebly-affects-43-million-users/
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/weebly
"id": "wee1357622",
"linkid": "weebly",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "02/2016",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "5",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the organization's existence"{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 43000000,
'industry': 'Technology',
'name': 'Weebly',
'type': 'Organization'}],
'data_breach': {'data_encryption': 'bcrypt hashed passwords',
'number_of_records_exposed': 43000000,
'personally_identifiable_information': ['username',
'email address',
'password',
'gender',
'location',
'Facebook name',
'Twitter ID',
'IP address'],
'type_of_data_compromised': ['username',
'email address',
'password',
'gender',
'location',
'Facebook name',
'Twitter ID',
'IP address']},
'description': 'Weebly, a free website builder, suffered a data breach that '
'compromised the personal information of 43 million users. An '
'unauthorized party obtained email addresses and/or usernames, '
'IP addresses, and encrypted (bcrypt hashed) passwords. The '
'exposed data included information like username, email '
'address, password, gender, location, Facebook name, Twitter '
'ID, and IP address. Weebly requested that its users enable '
'two-step verification (2SV) at all times.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['username',
'email address',
'password',
'gender',
'location',
'Facebook name',
'Twitter ID',
'IP address']},
'recommendations': ['Enable two-step verification (2SV)'],
'response': {'remediation_measures': ['Enable two-step verification (2SV)']},
'title': 'Weebly Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}