Mashable.com

In mid 2020 the digital media platform Mashable suffered a significant data breach that was later disclosed in November 2020. The incident involved an unauthorized party gaining access to a backup of the sites database stored on a third party cloud service. The exposed data set contained info on 5.2 million records including 1.4 million unique email addresses. Leaked details spanned personal identifiers such as full names gender and physical locations along with social media profile links and authentication tokens. This breach highlighted vulnerabilities in third party storage security for large scale media companies.