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Bleacher Reports Suffers Data Breach as “Unauthorized Party” Accesses User Data

Posted on December 17, 2016 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports:

Sports news portal Bleacher Report announced today a security breach that affected readers that signed up for accounts on the site.

At the time of writing the number of affected users isn’t known, and a request for comment from Bleeping Computer was not returned at the time of publishing.

According to an email sent out by the sports news site, “an unauthorized party gained access to certain files containing limited Bleacher Report user information.”

Read more on BleepingComputer.


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