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2021 — In August 2022, news broke of an attack against the Rus…

2021 Unknown records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Email addresses, Geographic locations, Names, Passwords,

Technical writeup

In August 2022, news broke of an attack against the Russian streaming service "START". The incident led to the exposure of 44M records containing 7.4M unique email addresses. The impacted data also included the subscriber's country and password hash. START subsequently acknowledged the incident in a Telegram post and stated that the data dated back to 2021.

Root cause

Data breach

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