verified2024-07-09
The Heritage FoundationThe Heritage Foundation breach
heritage.org · 72,004 records compromised
Records
72K
Breach date
2024-07-09
Domain
heritage.org
Data classes
5
Description
In July 2024, hacktivists published almost 2GB of data taken from The Heritage Foundation and their media arm, The Daily Signal . The data contained 72k unique email addresses, primarily used for commenting on articles (along with names, IP addresses and the comments left) and by content contributors (along with usernames and passwords stored as either MD5 or phpass hashes).
Compromised data classes· 5
Email addressesIP addressesNamesPasswordsUsernames
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.