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Breach occurred 2015-07-06Verifiedhackingteam.com
What happened
In July 2015, the Italian security firm Hacking Team suffered a major data breach that resulted in over 400GB of their data being posted online via a torrent. The data searchable on "Have I Been Pwned?" is from 189GB worth of PST mail folders in the dump. The contents of the PST files is searchable on Wikileaks.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Hacking Team data breach occurred on July 6, 2015. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on July 12, 2015.
32,310 accounts were affected by the Hacking Team data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Hacking Team breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Email messages.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Hacking Team breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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