Troy Hunt's Mailchimp List — 17K accounts
Severity: Low · Kind: Data breach
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From the source
In March 2025, a phishing attack successfully gained access to Troy Hunt's Mailchimp account and automatically exported a list of people who had subscribed to the newsletter for his personal blog . The exported list contained 16k email addresses and other data automatically collected by Mailchimp including IP address and a derived latitude, longitude and time zone.
Breach facts
- Accounts affected
- 16,627
- Verified
- Yes
- Sensitive
- No
- Domain
- troyhunt.com
- Data exposed
- Email addressesGeographic locationsIP addresses
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