Just announced: Under Armour data breach affects 150 million MyFitnessPal accounts

Under Armour is notifying users of its MyFitnessPal food and nutrition app about a data security breach.

The company said its MyFitnessPal team learned on March 25 that an unauthorized party acquired data associated with MyFitnessPal user accounts in late February 2018.

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MyFitnessPal data breach: What you need to know

According to the investigation, the affected information includes usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords for 150 million user accounts.

However, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers and payment card data were not obtained.

Under Armour said it began notifying the MyFitnessPal community of the issue via email and through in-app messaging four days after learning of the data breach.

MyFitnessPal users will be required to change their passwords and are urged to do so immediately.

Here’s the email that was sent to MyFitnessPal users: