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2024 Hack — 26.8M records

2024 26.8M records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Names, emails, passwords, IPs, addresses, phone numbers

Technical writeup

May 2024. The Post Millennial (Canadian news site) hack. Homepage defaced; data links posted. Exposed: writers (IPs, addresses, emails), subscribers (names, emails, plain text passwords), millions of mailing list emails. Data shared on torrents and forums.

Root cause

Website compromise; defacement and data theft.

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