ZoomSearchEngine.com

ZoomSearchEngine an American data search platform suffered a data breach in 2021 resulting in the exposure of approximately 57 thousand user records. The incident involved the unauthorized access and extraction of sensitive user data from the company database. The compromised information included internal nicknames electronic mail addresses and internet protocol addresses. Furthermore the leak contained statistics regarding user publication counts and security credentials stored as BCRYPT hashes. This breach highlights vulnerabilities in user authentication storage and potential risks of credential stuffing attacks due to the exposed hashed passwords.