
Patreon, a service that makes it easy to financially back creators, has been hacked and some personal data was breached.
According to an email sent to users, the service found unauthorized access to a database containing full names, email addresses and shipping addresses.
The company also found that encrypted social security numbers and passwords were accessed, but claims theyâre securely hashed and couldnât be read.
A blog post from the companyâs CEO says that the data was accessed from a debugging server that wasnât used for hosting its website, but the development server did contain a copy of the real customer data.
We recommend you change your password as soon as possible, even though itâs unlikely attackers can decrypt it.
†Important security notice from Patreon [Patreon]
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