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Breach details for MediaWorks

Title: MediaWorks
Domain: mediaworks.co.nz
Breach: 2023-03-15
Added: 2024-03-22T06:43:09Z
Modified: 2024-03-22T06:43:09Z
Data Count: 162710
Description: In March 2024, millions of rows of data from the New Zealand media company MediaWorks was publicly posted to a popular hacking forum. The incident exposed 163k unique email addresses provided by visitors who filled out online competitions and included names, physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders and the responses to questions in the competition. Some victims of the breach subsequently received ransom demands requesting payment to have their data deleted.
Type of Data: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Phone numbers, Physical addresses