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MEO data breach (2020)

In early 2023, a corpus of data sourced from the New Zealand based face mask company MEO was discovered. Dating back to December 2020, the data contained over 8k customer records including names, addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored as MD5 Wordpress hashes.

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MEO
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8.2K
SectorRetail

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 2020-12-24, MEO was affected by a data breach. Approximately 8,227 accounts were exposed. In early 2023, a corpus of data sourced from the New Zealand based face mask company MEO was discovered. Dating back to December 2020, the data contained over 8k customer records including names, addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored as MD5 Wordpress hashes.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#MEO
  2. meoair.comhttps://meoair.com

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