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DaFont Data Breach (2017)

DaFont

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Disclosed

May 1, 2017

3252 days ago

Records

672.5K

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Media

Description

DaFont.com, a leading font sharing platform, suffered a data breach in the earlier part of 2017 that compromised its entire user database, impacting 699,464 user accounts. Exposed details included usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords, which were encoded using the now-vulnerable MD5 algorithm, enabling the anonymous hacker to decrypt over 98% of them.

Exposed Data Types

Exposed Data

PasswordsUsernamesEmail addresses