Widely known U.S. tech and culture magazine Wired had data from more than 2.3 million website users allegedly exposed on the new Breach Stars hacking forum by the threat actor "Lovely," who has also threatened to publish information from over 40 million users purportedly stolen from Conde Nast, the parent firm of Wired, according to HackRead.
Analysis of the leaked Wired.com data revealed users' full names, email addresses, user IDs, display names, account creation and update timestamps, and certain last session dates, but not their passwords or payment details. Moreover, the inclusion of information from accounts created from 2011 to 2022 indicated theft from a live or archived user database and supporting claims of Wired.com account system or Conde Nast platform compromise.
Lovely has also touted exfiltrating data from over a dozen other brands owned by Conde Nast, including nearly 6.8 million accounts from The New Yorker, over 2 million accounts from SELF, and more than 2 million accounts from Bon Apptit.
Conde Nast has yet to acknowledge the assertions of Lovely, who had masqueraded as a security researcher in communications with DataBreaches.net's Dissent Doe and other cybersecurity journalists regarding the breach.
Analysis of the leaked Wired.com data revealed users' full names, email addresses, user IDs, display names, account creation and update timestamps, and certain last session dates, but not their passwords or payment details. Moreover, the inclusion of information from accounts created from 2011 to 2022 indicated theft from a live or archived user database and supporting claims of Wired.com account system or Conde Nast platform compromise.
Lovely has also touted exfiltrating data from over a dozen other brands owned by Conde Nast, including nearly 6.8 million accounts from The New Yorker, over 2 million accounts from SELF, and more than 2 million accounts from Bon Apptit.
Conde Nast has yet to acknowledge the assertions of Lovely, who had masqueraded as a security researcher in communications with DataBreaches.net's Dissent Doe and other cybersecurity journalists regarding the breach.
