Personal Data Leak Monitor

The Heritage Foundation data breach

72K accounts from The Heritage Foundation (heritage.org) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
July 9, 2024
Accounts
72,004
Added to the database
July 10, 2024

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About this breach

In July 2024, hacktivists published almost 2GB of data taken from The Heritage Foundation and their media arm, The Daily Signal. The data contained 72k unique email addresses, primarily used for commenting on articles (along with names, IP addresses and the comments left) and by content contributors (along with usernames and passwords stored as either MD5 or phpass hashes).

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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