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TheHeritageFoundation

Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
72K
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
5
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2024
TheHeritageFoundation

Breach History

TheHeritageFoundation
Jul 2024Critical
72K
Records exposed
5
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

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).

Exposed Data Types
Email addressesIP addressesNamesPasswordsUsernames
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Email addressesLow risk
IP addressesMedium risk
NamesLow risk
PasswordsHigh risk
UsernamesLow risk