The California Office of the Attorney General reported that LivingSocial, Inc. experienced a cyber-attack on April 5, 2013, which led to unauthorized access to customer data, including names, email addresses, dates of birth, and encrypted passwords. Approximately 1.1 million individuals were potentially affected by this breach.
Source: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-41617
TPRM report: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/livingsocial
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"linkid": "livingsocial",
"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "4/2013",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': '1.1 million',
'industry': 'E-commerce',
'name': 'LivingSocial, Inc.',
'type': 'Company'}],
'data_breach': {'data_encryption': 'encrypted passwords',
'number_of_records_exposed': '1.1 million',
'personally_identifiable_information': ['names',
'email addresses',
'dates of birth'],
'type_of_data_compromised': ['names',
'email addresses',
'dates of birth',
'encrypted passwords']},
'date_detected': '2013-04-05',
'description': 'The California Office of the Attorney General reported that '
'LivingSocial, Inc. experienced a cyber-attack on April 5, '
'2013, which led to unauthorized access to customer data, '
'including names, email addresses, dates of birth, and '
'encrypted passwords. Approximately 1.1 million individuals '
'were potentially affected by this breach.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['names',
'email addresses',
'dates of birth',
'encrypted passwords']},
'references': [{'source': 'California Office of the Attorney General'}],
'title': 'LivingSocial Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}