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Bolt Data Breach (2017)

Bolt

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Disclosed

March 1, 2017

3313 days ago

Records

995.4K

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Technology

Description

The file-sharing site Bolt suffered a data breach around March, which led to the exposure of approximately 955,000 user accounts. The breached data included salted MD5 hashed passwords. Despite the use of salting, which is a method used to enhance the security of hashed passwords, the breach was successful.

Exposed Data Types

Exposed Data

PasswordsIP AddressesUsernamesEmail addresses