Post-millennial and human event cyberattacks exposed the personal data of over 26 million people to the dark web.
Post Millennial and Human Events are conservative media publications, the former for the Canadian market and the latter for the United States, owned by Human Events Media Group.
Earlier this month, attackers defaced both websites and left messages pretending to be editors, including employees' names, email addresses, usernames, account passwords, IP addresses, phone numbers, addresses, and gender. and stole subscriber data.
Various campaigns
Because both websites target people with far-right or conservative political views ahead of the US presidential election, the impact of this data breach ranges from simple identity theft to It can be profound, right down to the different ways data is used to change things. election. A total of 26.8 million people had their data stolen.
Troy Hunt, Owner and Administrator of Have I Been Pwned? The website says the database has been added, but I wonder where it actually came from.
“This breach compromised the website, hundreds of writers and editors (with IPs, addresses, and emails exposed), and three different users, including the site’s tens of thousands of subscribers (with names, emails, and usernames). Links posted to the data corpus were defaced, phone and plain text passwords were exposed), and tens of millions of email addresses on thousands of mailing lists allegedly used by Postmillennials (this (has not been independently verified),” he said.
“The mailing list appears to be sourced from various campaigns not necessarily run by The Post Millennial and contains various personal attributes, including name, phone number, and address (depending on the campaign). .”
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