SitePoint discloses data breach after stolen info used in attacks

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The SitePoint web professional community has disclosed a data breach after their user database was sold and eventually leaked for free on a hacker forum.

SitePoint is a website launched in 1999 that offers content and a community devoted to web professionals and developers. The site offers a premium membership that provides access to over 600 books, courses, and talks.


At the end of December 2020, BleepingComputer learned of a data breach broker selling the user databases for 26 different companies.  One of the databases was for SitePoint.com, which the broker stated contained one million user records.

At the time, BleepingComputer contacted SitePoint with this information, but we never received a response to our repeated emails.

On January 26th, 2021, a threat actor known as ShinyHunters shared the database for Learnable.com for free on a hacker forum. The learnable.com redirects to the Sitepoint.com domain.



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