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Date Hot Brunettes data breach (2021)

In January 2021, the now defunct website Date Hot Brunettes which provided a service to "Date Neglected Women Who Can Keep a Secret", suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 1.5M unique email addresses along with IP addresses, usernames, user-entered bios and MD5 password hashes.

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Date Hot Brunettes
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1.5M
SectorTechnology

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 2021-01-12, Date Hot Brunettes was affected by a data breach. Approximately 1,494,078 accounts were exposed. In January 2021, the now defunct website Date Hot Brunettes which provided a service to "Date Neglected Women Who Can Keep a Secret", suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 1.5M unique email addresses along with IP addresses, usernames, user-entered bios and MD5 password hashes.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#DateHotBrunettes
  2. datehotbrunettes.comhttps://datehotbrunettes.com

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