Russian America Data Breach

What happened?

In approximately 2017, the website for Russian speakers in America known as Russian America suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 183k unique records including names, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored in both plain text and as MD5 hashes. Russian America was contacted about the breach but did not respond.

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is January 1, 2017. The record was added to the catalogue on September 13, 2018 and last updated there on September 13, 2018.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Email addresses
• Names
• Passwords
• Phone numbers

These are incident-level categories. The record does not prove that every category was exposed for every affected person.

Who may be affected?

This record may be relevant to people who had an account or other relationship with Russian America or used russianamerica.com around January 1, 2017. A catalogue entry does not establish that every customer was affected or that every listed data category applied to each person. Compare the record with an official notice addressed to you.

What should you do?

Choose actions that match the information involved. If you find signs that someone is using your identity, the Federal Trade Commission provides a personal recovery plan at IdentityTheft.gov.