MyHeritage breach leaks 92 million users' details

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MyHeritage breach leaks 92 million users' details

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A security breach at family networking and genealogy website MyHeritage leaked the data of over 92 million users. The breach took place on October 26 last year, and consisted of the email addresses and hashed passwords of users who signed up to the website up to the date of the breach, ...

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