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Business Acumen Magazine data breach (2014)

In April 2014, the Australian "Business Acumen Magazine" website was hacked by an attacker known as 1337MiR. The breach resulted in over 26,000 accounts being exposed including usernames, email addresses and password stored with a weak cryptographic hashing algorithm (MD5 with no salt).

Victim
Business Acumen Magazine
records
26.6K
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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 2014-04-25, Business Acumen Magazine was affected by a data breach. Approximately 26,596 accounts were exposed. In April 2014, the Australian "Business Acumen Magazine" website was hacked by an attacker known as 1337MiR. The breach resulted in over 26,000 accounts being exposed including usernames, email addresses and password stored with a weak cryptographic hashing algorithm (MD5 with no salt).

Sources

  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#BusinessAcumenMagazine
  2. businessacumen.bizhttps://businessacumen.biz

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