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Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
1.2M
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
3
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2010
Gawker

Breach History

Gawker
Dec 2010Critical
1.2M
Records exposed
3
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

In December 2010, Gawker was attacked by the hacker collective "Gnosis" in retaliation for what was reported to be a feud between Gawker and 4Chan. Information about Gawkers 1.3M users was published along with the data from Gawker's other web presences including Gizmodo and Lifehacker. Due to the prevalence of password reuse, many victims of the breach then had their Twitter accounts compromised to send Acai berry spam.

Exposed Data Types
Email addressesPasswordsUsernames
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Email addressesLow risk
PasswordsHigh risk
UsernamesLow risk