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Baby Names data breach (2008)

In approximately 2008, the site to help parents name their children known as Baby Names suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 846k email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.

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Baby Names
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846.7K
SectorRetail

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 2008-10-24, Baby Names was affected by a data breach. Approximately 846,742 accounts were exposed. In approximately 2008, the site to help parents name their children known as Baby Names suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 846k email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#BabyNames
  2. babynames.comhttps://babynames.com

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