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News: Flipboard data breach: Hacker infiltrated databases twice, stole customer data

03.Jun.2019
Martin Jartelius
Flipboard, the popular news aggregator service that boasted up to 145 million monthly users as of August last year, recently announced that an unknown hacker gained access to and stole data from some databases that contained names, email addresses, usernames, and passwords of an undisclosed number of its users.

The breach of Flipboard's databases containing personal information and credentials of its users took place on two occasions- once between June 2, 2018, and March 23, 2019, and again between April 21 – 22 this year.

Commenting on an unnamed hacker gaining access to databases containing sensitive information about Flipboard users, Martin Jartelius, CSO at Outpost24, said that the news of the breach is concerning not only due to the very prolonged initial breach, but also due to the fact that we are now almost two months past the end of that initial breach, and one month past the second breach.

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