Pwned: 65 million Tumblr accounts, 40 million from Fling, 360 million from MySpace
After signing up for Have I Been Pwned? when Troy Hunt started the site in 2013, I had received no notifications about any account being compromised in a data breach. But then whammo! I get two notifications for two separate breaches in a relatively short time. The one today was about Tumblr, an account I barely remember even signing up for.
Over 65 million Tumblr accounts compromised
Tumblr claimed “a third party had obtained access to a set of Tumblr user email addresses with salted and hashed passwords from early 2013.” The reality, according to the HIBP notification, is that 65,469,298 people were pwned in the Tumblr data breach from February 2013; the compromised data included email addresses and passwords.
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