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Bitly data breach (2014)

In May 2014, the link management company Bitly announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained over 9.3 million unique email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords, most using SHA1 with a small number using bcrypt.

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Bitly
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9.3M
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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 2014-05-08, Bitly was affected by a data breach. Approximately 9,313,136 accounts were exposed. In May 2014, the link management company Bitly announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained over 9.3 million unique email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords, most using SHA1 with a small number using bcrypt.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Bitly
  2. bitly.comhttps://bitly.com

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