Gizmodo reports a hacker group allegedly collected and leaked approximately 500,000 usernames and passwords of cybersecurity firm Fortinet VPN users on a dark web forum. The data is believed to have been accessed through a previously discovered security flaw, identified by federal agencies in April and subsequently patched by the company. The information reportedly belongs to 498,908 users and 12,856 devices from as many as 74 countries.
10 Sept. 2021
Hackers leak usernames, passwords of 500,000 Fortinet VPN users
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