📰 Data of 43 Million Users Stolen in 2012 Last.fm Data Breach

Data breach indexing website LeakedSource has announced today that it received a data dump of 43,570,999 user records that were stolen in 2012 from music streaming service Last.fm. London-based Last.fm admitted to the data breach in June 2012, when it also asked users to reset passwords. According to timestamps in the data received by LeakedSource, the Last.fm data breach occurred on March 22, 2012, which is consistent with a GigaOM article from June 2012 that reported a similar timeline for the security breach. Initial Last.fm data breach estimation was of 1.5 million Last.fm said it started to investigate the incident after multiple users complained of spam in May 2012, and after a ... ...