Security News > 2024 > May > The Post Millennial hack leaked data impacting 26 million people
Have I Been Pwned has added the information for 26,818,266 people whose data was leaked in a recent hack of The Post Millennial conservative news website.
The data quickly spread online, being shared in torrents and hacking forums, allowing threat actors and others to download the data easily.
Yesterday, Troy Hunt added the data to the Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service, noting that the data has not been confirmed to have been stolen directly from Human Events or The Post Millennial.
"The breach resulted in the defacement of the website and links posted to 3 different corpuses of data including hundreds of writers and editors, tens of thousands of subscribers to the site, and tens of millions of email addresses from several thousand mailing lists alleged to have been used by The Post Millennial," reads HIBP's post.
As tweeted by Troy Hunt, while the data was leaked as part of The Post Millennial defacement, it is unclear where it originated from.
By the time of writing this, The Post Millennial has not issued a public statement regarding the site's defacement or to warn its subscribers that data may have been exposed.