LiveAuctioneers security breach puts users at risk

“Encrypted passwords” and contact details fall into the hands of unauthorised party.

LiveAuctioneers, the online website which broadcasts live auctions selling antiques, art, and collectibles, has warned that user details have fallen into unauthorised hands following a security breach.

In a statement posted on its website, LiveAuctioneers has confirmed that “an unauthorised third party” accessed user data for the past two weeks.

According to the auction-streaming website, the security breach occurred at an unnamed data processing partner of LiveAuctioneers:

Our cybersecurity team has confirmed that an unauthorized third party accessed certain user data in the past two weeks through a security breach at a LiveAuctioneers data processing partner.

The data that has been accessed could include user account information like names, email addresses, mailing addresses, visit history, phone numbers, last four digits of credit cards, credit card expiration dates, and encrypted passwords. Not all of this information may have been present on your account. Please also know that complete credit card numbers were not accessed.

LiveAuctioneers claims to have blocked the unauthorised party’s access to the data, and disabled user passwords.

Users are encouraged to change their passwords on the website, but I would go further and recommend that if any LiveAuctioneers users have made the mistake of using that same (now breached) password anywhere else on the inter ..

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