World – Investment research company Zacks data breach (2022) – 10.45 mln records
Buy Zacks Investment 10mln customer database. In December 2022, the investment research company Zacks announced a data breach. The following month, reports emerged of the incident impacting 820k customers. However, in June 2023, a corpus of data with almost 9M Zacks customers appeared before being broadly circulated on a popular hacking forum. The most recent data was dated May 2020 and included names, usernames, email and physical addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored as unsalted SHA-256 hashes. On disclosure of the larger breach, Zacks advised that in addition to their original report “the unauthorised third parties also gained access to encrypted passwords”.
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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/zacks-investment-research-data-breach-affects-820-000-clients/
