HackingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedPIICREDENTIALSHighContained
Popsugar
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Full breach record for Popsugar →POPSUGAR Inc. disclosed a February 2018 data breach affecting 123,857 users. An unauthorized third party accessed account credentials and user information, including names, email addresses, and hashed passwords. POPSUGAR engaged external providers, reset passwords, and enhanced monitoring. Notification was sent to affected users on June 14, 2018.
California clockDiscovered Apr 30, 2018 → Notified Jun 14, 201845d ✓ CA 60-day OK6 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed123,857 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-137129
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jun 14, 2018
- Raw hash
- d4b1468bee847b7bef519d7e452c81d4b1bd957848975dced4d64ad60363f4db
Reporting entity
- Name
- Popsugarnorm: popsugar
- Domain
- popsugar.com
Victim entity
- Name
- Popsugarnorm: popsugar
- Domain
- popsugar.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Apr 30, 2018
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Jun 14, 2018
- Affected individuals
- 123,857
- Data types
- PIICREDENTIALS
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 6 weeks(45 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 45d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Apr 30, 2018→ Notified: Jun 14, 201845d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.