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START data breach (2021)

In August 2022, news broke of an attack against the Russian streaming service "START". The incident led to the exposure of 44M records containing 7.4M unique email addresses. The impacted data also included the subscriber's country and password hash.

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START
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7.5M
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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 2021-06-01, START was affected by a data breach. Approximately 7,455,386 accounts were exposed. In August 2022, news broke of an attack against the Russian streaming service "START". The incident led to the exposure of 44M records containing 7.4M unique email addresses. The impacted data also included the subscriber's country and password hash.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#START
  2. start.filmhttps://start.film

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