2024 Hack — 26.8M records
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.