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Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori data breach (2018)

In November 2018, the Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori (Italian Society of Authors and Publishers, or SIAE) was hacked, defaced and almost 4GB of data leaked publicly via Twitter. The data included over 14k registered users' names, email addresses and passwords.

Victim: Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori
records: 14.6K

SectorMedia

CountryItaly

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 2018-11-03, Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori was affected by a data breach. Approximately 14,609 accounts were exposed. In November 2018, the Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori (Italian Society of Authors and Publishers, or SIAE) was hacked, defaced and almost 4GB of data leaked publicly via Twitter. The data included over 14k registered users' names, email addresses and passwords.

Sources

haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#SocietàItalianadegliAutoriedEditori
siae.ithttps://siae.it

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