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2026
Condé Nast data breach exposes over 2.3 million Wired user records
Issue disclosure
Condé Nast suffered a data breach in which more than 2.3 million user records from Wired were released, including names, emails, addresses and phone numbers but no passwords. A hacker named Lovely claimed Condé Nast did not care about user data security and threatened to leak more than 40 million additional records over the coming weeks.
Source excerpt
“Condé Nast does not care about the security of their users data,” it wrote. “It took us an entire month to convince them to fix the vulnerabilities on their websites. We will leak more of their users’ data (40 + million) over the next few weeks. Enjoy!”
It was hacked, and more than 2.3 million user records from Wired were released, including name, email, address and phone, but no passwords