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tumblr data breach (2013)

In early 2013, tumblr suffered a data breach which resulted in the exposure of over 65 million accounts. The data was later put up for sale on a dark market website and included email addresses and passwords stored as salted SHA1 hashes.

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tumblr
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65.5M
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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 2013-02-28, tumblr was affected by a data breach. Approximately 65,469,298 accounts were exposed. In early 2013, tumblr suffered a data breach which resulted in the exposure of over 65 million accounts. The data was later put up for sale on a dark market website and included email addresses and passwords stored as salted SHA1 hashes.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#tumblr
  2. tumblr.comhttps://tumblr.com

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