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Flashback data breach (2015)

In February 2015, the Swedish forum known as Flashback had sensitive internal data on 40k members published via the tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet. The data was allegedly sold to them via Researchgruppen (The Research Group) who have a history of exposing otherwise anonymous users, primarily those…

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Flashback
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40.3K
SectorMedia
CountrySweden

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 2015-02-11, Flashback was affected by a data breach. Approximately 40,256 accounts were exposed. In February 2015, the Swedish forum known as Flashback had sensitive internal data on 40k members published via the tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet. The data was allegedly sold to them via Researchgruppen (The Research Group) who have a history of exposing otherwise anonymous users, primarily those…

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Flashback
  2. flashback.sehttps://flashback.se

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