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000webhost data breach (2015)

In approximately March 2015, the free web hosting provider 000webhost suffered a major data breach that exposed almost 15 million customer records. The data was sold and traded before 000webhost was alerted in October. The breach included names, email addresses and plain text passwords.

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000webhost
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14.9M
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Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2015-03-01, 000webhost was affected by a data breach. Approximately 14,936,670 accounts were exposed. In approximately March 2015, the free web hosting provider 000webhost suffered a major data breach that exposed almost 15 million customer records. The data was sold and traded before 000webhost was alerted in October. The breach included names, email addresses and plain text passwords.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#000webhost
  2. 000webhost.comhttps://000webhost.com

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