66 alaska.edu emails found in Home Chef data breach

In early 2020, the food delivery service Home Chef suffered a data breach which was subsequently sold online. The breach exposed the personal information of almost 9 million customers including names, IP addresses, post codes, the last 4 digits of credit card numbers and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.

Among those email address were 66 University of Alaska emails. Visit HaveIBeenPwned to see if your email has been involved in this (or any other) breach.

You can minimize the risk to your accounts by avoiding using the same login and password combination for multiple sites. Using long and unique passwords for each account helps protect you and the university in the case of a breach.