Crims disconnect Wired subscribers from their privacy, publish deets online
Additionally, some user IDs, display names, account creation and update timestamps, and in some cases last session dates and IP addresses, have been published, which shows the database that was targeted could have contained live data and was not a static marketing repository.
“Conde Nast does not care the security of their users’ data. It took us an entire month to convince them to fix the vulnerabilities (on) their website,” the hackers wrote in a forum post. “We will leak more of their users’ data (40+ million) over the few weeks. Enjoy!”
The batch of files was published to Limewire and Gofile.io.
Its researchers warn that victims could be subject to doxxing, swatting and phishing campaigns as a result of having their information published. However, Hackread pointed out that the silver lining appears to be no credit card information has been exposed. ®
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