The Heritage Foundation — 72K accounts
Severity: Low · Kind: Data breach
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From the source
In July 2024, hacktivists published almost 2GB of data taken from The Heritage Foundation and their media arm, The Daily Signal . The data contained 72k unique email addresses, primarily used for commenting on articles (along with names, IP addresses and the comments left) and by content contributors (along with usernames and passwords stored as either MD5 or phpass hashes).
Breach facts
- Accounts affected
- 72,004
- Verified
- Yes
- Sensitive
- No
- Domain
- heritage.org
- Data exposed
- Email addressesIP addressesNamesPasswordsUsernames
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