XKCD forum goes offline after discovery of data leak affecting 562K members

The Next Web
By Ravie LakshmananSep 2, 2019, 10:35 am192 pts
XKCD forum, the bulletin board associated with the popular webcomic XKCD, has been taken offline after personal information of more than 562,000 members was exposed online. According to security researcher Troy Hunt, the breach occurred two months ago (on July 1 2019). The compromised data has been added to…

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