BreachDirectory Blog

Foreword It is speculated that a Chinese gaming website 7k7k suffered a data breach in December 2011. The hack is thought to be part of a series of attacks directed at Chinese IT portals, gaming and social networking websites. The data leak has surfaced after China’s largest programmers’ website CSDN (China Software Developer Network) suffered a data breach. What data is at risk? The data that the 7k7k data breach has put at risk include email addresses and passwords. As…

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Foreword A women’s fashion retailer SHEIN, also spelled SheIn, is a US-based online store that had apparently suffered a data breach somewhere in June 2018, but the company only discovered the breach in late August 2018. SHEIN stated that the intruders managed to gain access to customers’ email addresses and encrypted passwords. What data is at risk? When the data breach was discovered, SHEIN stated that the hackers managed to gain access to email addresses and encrypted passwords that were…

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Preface WeHeartIt, an image sharing website, suffered a data breach in late 2013. However, the breach was not discovered until it suddenly appeared on the web a few years later. The company stated that the data breach affected over 8 million customers. What data is at risk? The WeHeartIt data breach took place in late 2013 and the breached data includes email addresses, usernames and passwords. According to WeHeartIt themselves, although the passwords were encrypted, the encryption algorithm was weak:…

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