Talk:2021 Epik data breach

Latest comment: 2 years ago by GorillaWarfare in topic New sources

Credit card numbers

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From what I get from the first announcement (not a RS and likely ironic), the full credit card numbers were poorly protected but not fully exposed in the leak, because of legal considerations (guess shortening them can be automated with some kind of regex). Some sources seem to suggest otherwise or are at best ambiguous. I am mostly looking for some clarification, don't think this needs more details in this article and would otherwise need sources and probably more time (it may also be a joke from the start as far as I can tell). 176.247.148.163 (talk) 23:56, 30 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

From The Washington Post: "Materials from the hack reviewed by The Post include not just names and home addresses but also full credit card numbers, unencrypted passwords and other highly sensitive data."
My understanding is that the people who released the data tried to obfuscate credit card numbers, but missed some (I suspect likely due to the enormous size of the data dump). GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 00:04, 1 October 2021 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, that's not what I would call "ambiguous" and is as clear as things can get for now (I should probably also remember that reading some Washington Post articles online for free is way easier than it looks like). The article doesn't mention if the numbers were encrypted (guess spotting and obfuscating even poorly encrypted credit card numbers is more challenging than plain text ones, not sure of the legal implications and, yeah, I'm digressing)176.247.148.163 (talk) 04:06, 1 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

New sources

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GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 21:12, 16 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

Another: CNN: "Epik is a refuge for the deplatformed far right. Here's why its CEO insists on doing it" GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 16:40, 9 December 2021 (UTC)Reply