Reported Ceramic Power Liquid Data Breach: 1,632 Records Listed

HEROIC analysts reviewed a reported data breach record for Ceramic Power Liquid, dated August 1, 2023. The report lists 1,632 records of email addresses and plaintext passwords, and it has not been confirmed. Checking your own email address is the only way to learn whether it appears in the record.

What Readable Passwords Change for Anyone Holding the List

A plaintext password is kept as it was typed, with no scrambling to undo. If the report is accurate, a person holding this record can read each password and compare it with the email address beside it. Nothing has to be cracked first, so the protection that hashing adds is absent.

The Two Items in the Report

• Email addresses, the sign-in name for online services and a target for phishing messages that mention the site.
• Plaintext passwords, readable as stored, so a password reused elsewhere can open those logins as well.

What a Reused Password Can Open

The record does not say where else a password was used, and that gap is the risk. Anyone who reused a Ceramic Power Liquid password for an email inbox, a bank login or a work system has tied those logins to this report. An inbox matters because password reset links are sent to it.

How a Database Record of This Kind Comes About

In a database breach, records are copied from the systems of one service, and the result is a list of what that service held, such as email addresses and passwords. This report is unconfirmed, so the circumstances are not established, and nothing here is a statement about how the site was run.

Does Your Email Address Appear in This Record?

To find out, scan your email and see your information. A match means the password tied to Ceramic Power Liquid is worth changing everywhere it was used. Pick a different password for each site, and switch on two-factor sign-in where it is offered. Check the address you use at work as well as the one you use at home, because either could have been used on the site. Treat the report as a claim until it is confirmed, and follow the password advice regardless.