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Oxfam data breach (2021)

In January 2021, Oxfam Australia was the victim of a data breach which exposed 1.8M unique email addresses of supporters of the charity. The data was put up for sale on a popular hacking forum and also included names, phone numbers, addresses, genders and dates of birth.

Victim
Oxfam
records
1.8M
SectorFinance
CountryAustralia

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 2021-01-20, Oxfam was affected by a data breach. Approximately 1,834,006 accounts were exposed. In January 2021, Oxfam Australia was the victim of a data breach which exposed 1.8M unique email addresses of supporters of the charity. The data was put up for sale on a popular hacking forum and also included names, phone numbers, addresses, genders and dates of birth.

Sources

  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Oxfam
  2. oxfam.org.auhttps://oxfam.org.au

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