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Washington Post Co/The

Washington Post Co/The Data Breach (2011)

Washington Post Co/The

highVERIS
Disclosed

June 27, 2011

5387 days ago

Records

1.3M

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Other

Description

Unknown hackers broke into The Washington Post's Jobs website last month, stealing about 1.27 million user IDs and email addresses. The Post did not elaborate on the methods used by the intruders or vulnerabilities in its systems that might have given outsiders access to users' private information.