Eugene Kim reports:
Slack, the business communication app that is now reported to be worth over $2 billion, has experienced hacker attacks on its central user database, resulting in a possible breach of user data, Slack wrote in a blog post Friday.
“We were recently able to confirm that there was unauthorized access to a Slack database storing user profile information. We have since blocked this unauthorized access and made additional changes to our technical infrastructure to prevent future incidents,” it said.
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Update: Multiple media sources are reporting that this affected up to 500,000 users, but it’s not clear to me that Slack has confirmed that.