The Heritage Foundation

What Happened

In July 2024, hacktivists published almost 2GB of data taken from The Heritage Foundation and their media arm, The Daily Signal. The data contained 72k unique email addresses, primarily used for commenting on articles (along with names, IP addresses and the comments left) and by content contributors (along with usernames and passwords stored as either MD5 or phpass hashes).

Compromised Data

Email addresses
IP addresses
Names
Passwords
Usernames

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    72 thousand

  • Breach Occurred:

    July 2024

  • Added to HIBP:

    10 Jul 2024

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