diff --git a/Documentation/format/chunks.md b/Documentation/format/chunks.md
index 51ac1242c..3faae9b7d 100644
--- a/Documentation/format/chunks.md
+++ b/Documentation/format/chunks.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 The following describes the format of a single chunks file, which is created in the `chunks/` directory of a block. The maximum size per segment file is 512MiB.
 
-Chunks in the files are referenced from the index by the in-file offset in the 4 LSB and the segment sequence number in the bigher 4 MSBs.
+Chunks in the files are referenced from the index by the in-file offset in the 4 LSB and the segment sequence number in the higher 4 MSBs.
 
 ```
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diff --git a/block.go b/block.go
index 63b468f27..2bd1fd364 100644
--- a/block.go
+++ b/block.go
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ func writeMetaFile(dir string, meta *BlockMeta) error {
 	return renameFile(tmp, path)
 }
 
-// Block represents a directory of time series data covering a continous time range.
+// Block represents a directory of time series data covering a continuous time range.
 type Block struct {
 	mtx            sync.RWMutex
 	closing        bool
diff --git a/index.go b/index.go
index c0680aa33..972aaa8bd 100644
--- a/index.go
+++ b/index.go
@@ -573,8 +573,9 @@ type indexReader struct {
 }
 
 var (
-	errInvalidSize = fmt.Errorf("invalid size")
-	errInvalidFlag = fmt.Errorf("invalid flag")
+	errInvalidSize     = fmt.Errorf("invalid size")
+	errInvalidFlag     = fmt.Errorf("invalid flag")
+	errInvalidChecksum = fmt.Errorf("invalid checksum")
 )
 
 // NewIndexReader returns a new IndexReader on the given directory.
@@ -618,6 +619,11 @@ func newIndexReader(dir string) (*indexReader, error) {
 func (r *indexReader) readTOC() error {
 	d := r.decbufAt(len(r.b) - indexTOCLen)
 
+	crc := newCRC32()
+	if _, err := crc.Write(d.get()[:d.len()-4]); err != nil {
+		return errors.Wrap(err, "write to hash")
+	}
+
 	r.toc.symbols = d.be64()
 	r.toc.series = d.be64()
 	r.toc.labelIndices = d.be64()
@@ -625,9 +631,12 @@ func (r *indexReader) readTOC() error {
 	r.toc.postings = d.be64()
 	r.toc.postingsTable = d.be64()
 
-	// TODO(fabxc): validate checksum.
+	// Validate checksum
+	if d.be32() != crc.Sum32() {
+		return errors.Wrap(errInvalidChecksum, "TOC checksum")
+	}
 
-	return nil
+	return d.err()
 }
 
 func (r *indexReader) decbufAt(off int) decbuf {