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Knuddels data breach (2018)

In September 2018, the German social media website Knuddels suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 808k unique email addresses alongside usernames, real names, the city of the person and their password in plain text. Knuddels was subsequently fined €20k for the breach.

Victim
Knuddels
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808.3K
SectorMedia
CountryGermany

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 2018-09-05, Knuddels was affected by a data breach. Approximately 808,330 accounts were exposed. In September 2018, the German social media website Knuddels suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 808k unique email addresses alongside usernames, real names, the city of the person and their password in plain text. Knuddels was subsequently fined €20k for the breach.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Knuddels
  2. knuddels.dehttps://knuddels.de

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