Hi, list. Is the following email a hoax?
Thanks! From: MyFitnessPal [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2018 5:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Important Message Regarding MyFitnessPal Account Security We are writing to notify you about an issue that may involve your MyFitnessPal account information. Image removed by sender. NOTICE OF DATA BREACH 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. For More Information For more information, please go to https://content.myfitnesspal.com/security-information/FAQ.html. Sincerely, Paul Fipps Chief Digital Officer Image removed by sender. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
