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Legendas.TV data breach (2017)

In October 2017, the now defunct Brazilian service for retrieving subtitles in Portuguese Legendas.TV suffered a data breach that exposed nearly 4M customer records. The impacted data included names, usernames, email and IP addresses and unsalted SHA-1 hashes.

Victim
Legendas.TV
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3.9M
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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 2017-10-01, Legendas.TV was affected by a data breach. Approximately 3,869,181 accounts were exposed. In October 2017, the now defunct Brazilian service for retrieving subtitles in Portuguese Legendas.TV suffered a data breach that exposed nearly 4M customer records. The impacted data included names, usernames, email and IP addresses and unsalted SHA-1 hashes.

Sources

  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Legendas.TV
  2. legendas.tvhttps://legendas.tv

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