Online news aggregation service NewsNow suffered a security breach.
An encrypted version of your password might had been accessed.
In an email entitled “Update on your account security” NewsNow acknowledged that an incident has occurred but they didn’t include more technical details on how the passwords are stored.
Source: https://grahamcluley.com/newsnow-suffers-security-breach-passwords-should-be-considered-compromised/
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/news-now
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"type": "Breach",
"date": "09/2018",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Media',
'name': 'NewsNow',
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'data_breach': {'data_encryption': ['Encrypted passwords'],
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'description': 'Online news aggregation service NewsNow suffered a security '
'breach. An encrypted version of user passwords might have '
"been accessed. In an email entitled 'Update on your account "
"security,' NewsNow acknowledged that an incident had occurred "
'but did not include more technical details on how the '
'passwords are stored.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Passwords']},
'response': {'communication_strategy': ['Email notification to users']},
'title': 'NewsNow Security Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}