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StarTribune data breach (2019)

In October 2019, the Minnesota-based news service StarTribune suffered a data breach which was subsequently sold on the dark web. The breach exposed over 2 million unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, physical addresses, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.

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StarTribune
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2.2M
SectorRetail

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 2019-10-10, StarTribune was affected by a data breach. Approximately 2,192,857 accounts were exposed. In October 2019, the Minnesota-based news service StarTribune suffered a data breach which was subsequently sold on the dark web. The breach exposed over 2 million unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, physical addresses, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#StarTribune
  2. startribune.comhttps://startribune.com

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