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ReverbNation data breach (2014)

In January 2014, the online service for assisting musicians to build their careers ReverbNation suffered a data breach which wasn't identified until September the following year. The breach contained over 7 million accounts with unique email addresses and salted SHA1 passwords.

Victim
ReverbNation
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7.0M
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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 2014-01-01, ReverbNation was affected by a data breach. Approximately 7,040,725 accounts were exposed. In January 2014, the online service for assisting musicians to build their careers ReverbNation suffered a data breach which wasn't identified until September the following year. The breach contained over 7 million accounts with unique email addresses and salted SHA1 passwords.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#ReverbNation
  2. reverbnation.comhttps://reverbnation.com

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