More than 26 million people have had their personal data exposed on the dark web following a cyberattack on Post Millennial and Human Events.
Post Millennial and Human Events are conservative media publications: the first for the Canadian market and the second for the US, owned by Human Events Media Group.
Earlier this month, a threat actor defaced both websites, left a message posing as the publisher, and stole employee and subscriber data, including full names, email addresses, usernames, account passwords, IP addresses , telephone numbers, postal addresses and genders.
Various campaigns
Since both websites target people with conservative or far-right political views ahead of the US presidential election, the repercussions of this data breach could be serious, from simple identity theft to different ways in which the data can be used to alter the outcome of elections. the elections. In total, 26.8 million people have had their data stolen.
Troy Hunt, the owner and maintainer of Have I Been Pwned? The website said the database was added, but questioned where it actually came from:
“The breach resulted in defacement of the website and links posted to 3 different data corpuses, including hundreds of writers and editors (IP, physical address and email exposed), tens of thousands of subscribers to the site (name, email, username), phone number, and password in plain text), and tens of millions of email addresses from several thousand mailing lists that were allegedly used by The Post Millennial (this has not been independently verified)” , said.
“The mailing lists appear to come from various campaigns not necessarily run by The Post Millennial and contain a variety of different personal attributes, including name, phone, and physical address (depending on the campaign).”
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