verified2024-08-18
MC2 DataMC2 Data breach
2,122,280 records compromised
Records
2.12M
Breach date
2024-08-18
Data classes
3
Description
In August 2024, data aggregator MC2 Data left a database publicly accessible without a password which was subsequently discovered by a security researcher . The breach exposed the personal information of 2.1M subscribers to the service which was marketed under a series of different brand names . The data included email addresses, names and salted SHA-256 password hashes.
Compromised data classes· 3
Email addressesNamesPasswords
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.