MyFitnessPal Data Breach: Owner Company Under Armour Makes Statement

Under Armour, one of the biggest Sports Apparel manufacturers of the world, announced a humongous data breach yesterday. The breach compromised the usernames and passwords of about 150 million users connected to the MyFitnessPal App. MyFitnessPal is the biggest nutrition and fitness app and a subordinate company of Under Armour. MyFitnessPal was acquired by Under Armour in 2015.

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The Baltimore based company announced that a hacker has hacked the username, email and passwords of more than 150 million MyFitnessPal app users. This is another biggest data theft this year after the Cambridge Analytica data breach. According to the company, intruders could not accept payment details or credentials related to payment. So you need not delete the payment details linked to your MyFitnessPal app. But you must change your passwords for MyFitnessPal and change your passwords wherever you have kept similar passwords. Here is some guidelines by MyFitnessPal. Please read them:

To the MyFitnessPal Community:

We are writing to notify you about an issue that may involve your MyFitnessPal account information. We understand that you value your privacy and we take the protection of your information seriously.

What Happened?

On March 25, 2018, we became aware that during February of this year an unauthorized party acquired data associated with MyFitnessPal user accounts.

What Information Was Involved?

The affected information included usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords – the majority with the hashing function called bcrypt used to secure passwords.

What We Are Doing

Once we became aware, we quickly took steps to determine the nature and scope of the issue. We are working with leading data security firms to assist in our investigation. We have also notified and are coordinating with law enforcement authorities.

We are taking steps to protect our community, including the following:

  • We are notifying MyFitnessPal users to provide information on how they can protect their data.
  • We will be requiring MyFitnessPal users to change their passwords and urge users to do so immediately.
  • We continue to monitor for suspicious activity and to coordinate with law enforcement authorities.
  • We continue to make enhancements to our systems to detect and prevent unauthorized access to user information.

What You Can Do

We take our obligation to safeguard your personal data very seriously and are alerting you about this issue so you can take steps to help protect your information. We recommend you:

Change your password for any other account on which you used the same or similar information used for your MyFitnessPal account.

  • Review your accounts for suspicious activity.
  • Be cautious of any unsolicited communications that ask for your personal data or refer you to a web page asking for personal data.
  • Avoid clicking on links or downloading attachments from suspicious emails.

 

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