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Regpack data breach (2016)

In July 2016, a tweet was posted with a link to an alleged data breach of BlueSnap, a global payment gateway and merchant account provider. The data contained 324k payment records across 105k unique email addresses and included personal attributes such as name, home address and phone number.

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Regpack
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105.0K
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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 2016-05-20, Regpack was affected by a data breach. Approximately 104,977 accounts were exposed. In July 2016, a tweet was posted with a link to an alleged data breach of BlueSnap, a global payment gateway and merchant account provider. The data contained 324k payment records across 105k unique email addresses and included personal attributes such as name, home address and phone number.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Regpack
  2. bluesnap.comhttps://bluesnap.com

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