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2016 — Foursquare: The data breach notification LeakedSource has…

2016 22.5M records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Personal information

Technical writeup

The data breach notification LeakedSource has revealed that the web design platform Weebly and FourSquare, a local search-and-discovery service mobile app suffered a data breach.  As a result, 43,430,316 Weebly and 22,534,984 FourSquare users accounts were stolen.The NewYork-based company FourSquare suffered a security breach in December 2013 in which 22,534,984 user accounts were stolen however FourSquare has denied that it was hacked and claims that email addresses were simply cross-referenced

Root cause

Hacking

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