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Buffer Data Breach (2013)

Buffer

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Disclosed

October 1, 2013

4560 days ago

Records

Undisclosed

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Technology

Description

Because of MongoHQ breach, attacker gained access through mongohq into buffer's database, grabbed the auth tokens for facebook and twitter, then began to spam about a weight loss site through compromised facebook and twitter accounts.

Buffer Data Breach (2013) | ExposedMap