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Chronicle.com
high risk 🎓
academiceducationmedianews
Leak Date
January 2020
Records
3.5M rows
Region
US
Current Status
active
About this leak
In 2020 the academic news website Chronicle of Higher Education experienced a significant data breach affecting approximately 3.5 million users. The incident resulted in the exposure of sensitive user information that was subsequently shared on various hacking forums. The compromised data included user names, email addresses, usernames, and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. This breach posed a serious risk to users who reuse passwords across multiple platforms, especially within the academic and research communities.
Exposed Data
email
first name
last name
username
password