Kickstarter 2014 data breach: what happened

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 2014-02-16, Kickstarter was affected by a data breach. Approximately 5,176,463 accounts were exposed. In February 2014, the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained almost 5.2 million unique email addresses, usernames and salted SHA1 hashes of passwords.

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