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Breach occurred 2016-08-30Verifiedmdpi.com
What happened
In August 2016, the Swiss scholarly open access publisher known as MDPI had 17.5GB of data obtained from an unprotected Mongo DB instance. The data contained email exchanges between MDPI and their authors and reviewers which included 845k unique email addresses. MDPI have confirmed that the system has since been protected and that no data of a sensitive nature was impacted. As such, they concluded that notification to their subscribers was not necessary due to the fact that all their authors and reviewers are available online on their website.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The MDPI data breach occurred on August 30, 2016. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on March 25, 2018.
845,012 accounts were affected by the MDPI data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The MDPI breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Email messages, IP addresses, Names.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the MDPI breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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