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2016 — Walt Disney: Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media has…

2016 365.0K records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Personal information

Technical writeup

Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media has confirmed a data breach that affected some users of its Playdom forums.A spokesperson for the business segment of the Walt Disney Company explains in a statement that security teams detected the incident back in July:“On July 12, 2016, we became aware that an unauthorized party gained access to the Playdom Forum servers. We immediately began investigating the incident and discovered that on July 9 and July 12, 2016, the unauthorized party acquir

Root cause

Hacking

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