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ShinyHunters claim they have cruise giant Carnival's booty as 7.5M emails surface
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ShinyHunters claim they have cruise giant Carnival's booty as 7.5M emails surface

go.theregister.com·Carly Page·5 months ago
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Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise company, is dealing with choppy waters after Have I Been Pwned flagged what it claimed were 7.5 million unique email addresses all allegedly tied to one of its subsidiaries.  According to HIBP , the haul totals 8.7 million records and appears to relate to the Mariner Society loyalty program run by Holland America Line, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation. It said the "data contained fields indicating it related to the Mariner Society loyalty program run by Holland America." The exposed data includes names, dates of birth, genders, and membership status details – the kind of personal data attackers can easily repurpose for fraud or phishing. The company acknowledged a security incident, according to HIBP, but its version of events is, for now, a lot more contained. Carnival says the breach involved a phishing attack against a single user account and said it is still working to understand the scope of any unauthorized access.…

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