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2013 — Living Social: As many as 50 million LivingSocial members may have…

2013 29.0M records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Personal information

Technical writeup

As many as 50 million LivingSocial members may have had their names, email addresses, dates of birth, and encrypted passwords exposed by a cyber attack.  Customer credit card information was not compromised.  Customers were encouraged to change their passwords on any other sites on which they used the same or similar passwords.UPDATE (05/03/2013): As many as 50 million acounts may have been affected.  It is estimated that 29 million people used LivingSocial and many had multiple accounts.

Root cause

Hacking

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