US Flipboard Jun 2018 Hacking (Q16163)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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A data breach risk event |
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June 2018
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Flipboard is the latest company to fall foul of a data breach. The news aggregation app announced in a post that it had identified unauthorized access of some of its internal systems, which contained some Flipboard users account information and credentials. For more than nine months, the unauthorized person had access to Flipboards systems, potentially able to obtain copies of databases which hosted users information. Its unclear yet how many users were affected by the breach, but an investigation commissioned by the company revealed there was unauthorised access between June 2018 and April 2019. Passwords reset, most are secure While the information on these databases included their name, Flipboard username, and email address, the passwords were cryptographically protected with an algori (English)
