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Hot Topic data breach exposed personal data of 57 million customers
Millions of customers of Hot Topic have been informed that their personal data was compromised during an October data breach at the American retailer.
Have I Been Pwned, the breach notification service, said this week that it alerted 57 million Hot Topic customers that their data had been compromised. In a post on the cybercrime forum BreachForums, Satanic claimed to have stolen 350 million user records from Hot Topic and its affiliated brands, Box Lunch and Torrid. The hacker initially attempted to sell the database for $20,000 and demanded a $100,000 ransom from Hot Topic to take down the information, according to a report by cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock.
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