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Open Subtitles data breach (2021)

In August 2021, the subtitling website Open Subtitles suffered a data breach and subsequent ransom demand. The breach exposed almost 7M subscribers' personal data including email and IP addresses, usernames, the country of the user and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.

Victim
Open Subtitles
records
6.8M
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 2021-08-01, Open Subtitles was affected by a data breach. Approximately 6,783,158 accounts were exposed. In August 2021, the subtitling website Open Subtitles suffered a data breach and subsequent ransom demand. The breach exposed almost 7M subscribers' personal data including email and IP addresses, usernames, the country of the user and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#OpenSubtitles
  2. opensubtitles.orghttps://opensubtitles.org

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