US deviantART 2010 Hacking (Q16629)
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A data breach risk event
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US deviantART 2010 Hacking
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A data breach risk event
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DAE03331-EA43-465D-868B-247BD900C2EC
January 2010
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13,000,000 (No SSNs or financial information exposed) Mirroring the Gawker an McDonalds breaches earlier this month, hackers exposed the email addresses, user names and birth dates of the entire deviantART user database. Hackers were able to breach deviantARTs marketing company Silverpop Systems Inc. Passwords and sensitive information were not exposed, but the breach is expected to increase spam for registered users. (English)
