Askent.ru

Askent, a Russian retail store specializing in leather goods and clothing, suffered a significant security breach in 2020. An unauthorized party managed to compromise the database and extract customer information. The leaked data includes approximately 60 thousand records featuring sensitive user details. The technical analysis revealed that passwords were stored using MD5 hashing with salt, which is considered a weak protection method by modern security standards. The incident exposed personal communications and physical delivery details of the customer base.