Allegedly, the attack on the French platform DailyMotion started on January 19, 2019, and has affected limited accounts. The company’s IT security team discovered the attack and took all the necessary steps to block the attempt. The firm began informing its customers via email since Friday. They are also logging off the affected users and are resetting their passwords as a security measure.
This isn’t the first time that DailyMotion suffered a cyber attack. In 2016, the company suffered a similar attack affecting more than 85 million accounts.
In the past, various platforms have suffered credential stuffing attacks and have reset passwords. Some of these include the famous Dunkin Donuts, DoorDash – a food delivery firm, the UK railway service Eurostar, and the IT firm Dell, AdGuard also reset customer passwords after it suspected credential stuffing via some other websites.
Just recently, HIBP has uploaded a huge database of millions of breached email addresses and passwords to its records. Reportedly, the database includes new breached information from over 2000 databases so you may want to check and see if you have been affected if you have yet to do so.
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