{"id":824,"date":"2018-03-30T20:05:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T20:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fraud.flywheelsites.com\/myfitnesspal_breach\/"},"modified":"2020-11-09T07:30:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T07:30:43","slug":"myfitnesspal_breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/myfitnesspal_breach\/","title":{"rendered":"MyFitnessPal breach &#8211; Fraud.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"674\" height=\"400\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fitness and diet tracking app, MyFitnessPal, recently announced that it was the subject of a 150 million account data breach. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--content_break--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Announced:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> March 29, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Description of the breach:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> On March 29, 2018, the fitness and health tracking application, MyFitnessPal, informed its users that they were the subject of a 150 million account data breach. While personal information like step count, diet, and payment information is not believed to have been compromised, usernames, email addresses, and passwords were affected by the breach. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MyFitnessPal users should immediately change their passwords. In addition, users should be on the lookout for phishing attacks and remember that legitimate communications from MyFitnessPal about this issue will never request users to click on a link, or download a file. MyFitnessPal has encouraged users go to its website to update their account information. If you receive an email from MyFitnessPal about this data breach and it asks you click on a link or download a file, it is a phishing attack. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Data breach period:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">February 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Myfittnesspall\u2019s FAQ webpage: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/content.myfitnesspal.com\/security-information\/FAQ.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/content.myfitnesspal.com\/security-information\/FAQ.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>More coverage of this breach: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/3\/29\/17177848\/under-armour-myfitnesspal-data-breach-150-million-accounts-security\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Verge<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/03\/29\/under-armour-stock-falls-after-company-admits-data-breach.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CNBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NULL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/2251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}