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XKCD forum goes offline after discovery of data leak affecting 562K members

Posted on September 2, 2019 by Dissent

Ravie Lakshmanan reports:

XKCD forum, the bulletin board associated with the popular webcomic XKCD, has been taken offline after personal information of more than 562,000 members was exposed online.

According to security researcher Troy Hunt, the breach occurred two months ago (on July 1 2019). The compromised data has been added to breach alerting site Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).

Read more on TNW.

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