MediaWorks Data Breach
What Happened
In March 2024, millions of rows of data from the New Zealand media company MediaWorks was publicly posted to a popular hacking forum. The incident exposed 163k unique email addresses provided by visitors who filled out online competitions and included names, physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders and the responses to questions in the competition. Some victims of the breach subsequently received ransom demands requesting payment to have their data deleted.
Compromised Data
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Affected Accounts:
162.7 thousand
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Breach Occurred:
March 2023
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Added to HIBP:
22 Mar 2024
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