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  1. 2020

    Freepik discloses user data breach

    Issue disclosure

    Freepik disclosed a data breach after hackers used SQL injection to access a database containing user data. According to the report, the incident affected 8.3 million users, and hackers took some users' information. The disclosure describes unauthorized access to a user-data database via SQL injection and states the reported scale of affected users and the reported taking of some user information.

    Source excerpt

    • 此次安全漏洞发生在黑客进行SQL注入漏洞访问其一个存储用户数据的数据库之后。
    • 黑客只取走了部分用户的信息。
    • 据外媒,免费图像网站Freepik最近披露了一起重大数据泄露事故,波及用户达到830万人。