Popular fishing app Fishbrain hacked

Source: The Register Cybercriminals have reeled in password hashes and corresponding salts belonging to users of popular fishing app Fishbrain, opening the door to cracking attempts.

Stockholm, Sweden-based Fishbrain AB, which says its eponymous app serves more than 20 million anglers, disclosed the Aug. 19 breach to the California Attorney General's Office this week.

The unknown perpetrators helped themselves to a trawl of user data, including names, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers, Fishbrain usernames, country information, password hashes, and salts. "Fishbrain passwords were not stored in plaintext; however, Fishbrain has determined that the compromised password hashes for some users may be susceptible to being decoded," the company said in its disclosure [PDF].

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