Security News > 2020 > December > NetGalley discloses data breach after website was hacked
The NetGalley book promotion site has suffered a data breach that allowed threat actors to access a database with members' personal information.
NetGalley is a website that allows authors and publishers to promote digital review copies of their books to book advocates, influential readers, and industry professionals in the hopes that they will recommend the books to their audience.
On Monday, December 21st, NetGalley's website was hacked and defaced.
"It is with great regret that we inform you that on Monday, December 21, 2020 NetGalley was the victim of a data security incident. What initially seemed like a simple defacement of our homepage has, with further investigation, resulted in the unauthorized and unlawful access to a backup file of the NetGalley database," NetGalley disclosed in a data breach advisory.
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