Brittany A. Roston reports:
Wishbone, an app popular among teenagers, has suffered a data breach, it has been revealed. The company informed its users of the intrusion in a notification recently, saying it became aware of the data swipe on March 14. The notification says that unknown individuals “may have had access” to the company’s API and used it to nab data on the service’s users. The info may contain more than 2 million email addresses, among other things.
According to the notification, the stolen data includes personal names, telephone numbers, usernames, and email addresses. Anyone who provided their birthday information for the account will also likely have had that data stolen, however the thieves did not acquire any account passwords or financial data.
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Motherboard reports that 2.2 million email addresses and 287,000 cellphone numbers may have been stolen.