The popular webcomic platform XKCD has suffered a data breach that exposed data of its forum users, the incident impacted 562,000 subscribers.
XKCD is one of the most popular
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The data breach took place on July 1st, 2019, the popular security researcher Troy Hunt, who received the data by security researcher Adam Davies,
58% of the leaked addresses were already in the HIBP archive because they are from previous data breaches.
Hunt added the data to the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) website over the weekend. Exposed data include
“We’ve taken the forums offline until we can go over them and make sure they’re secure. If
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(SecurityAffairs – XKCD, data breach)