Gumtree SA data breach?

[burn]

Today, Google notified me that my Gumtree account had been compromised.

Not an uncommon occurrence for a South African nowadays but it's a large website so I was intrigued. I did a quick Google and found very little about it except the below X post in February 2024.

Does anyone know if this has been verified? Seems to not have gathered much attention, is why I ask.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1753297898828374018

 

[RedViking]

Probably not the South African one.

 

[rvZA]

There has been a huge data leak in South Africa. Google suddenly notified me that a number of my passwords have been compromised. But, Google did not identify the source of the leak. Although I use the same passwords for certain sites, I do use 2FA as well.

And for what its worth, I do not have a Gumtree account.

 

[burn]

Probably not the South African one.

Tweets can be long these days. Near the end. But I'm not sure how the other countries are all linked. Seems pretty separate. A few things don't add up. Hence I'm not running for my pitchfork just yet.

 

[RedViking]

Tweets can be long these days. Near the end.

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Eina! Oh well.... More spam. Fortunately I don't have any sensitive information in the chats.

 

[PsyWulf]

Hmm,none of my Breach alerts flagged this one for my Emails,guess i'm good