Timehop reveals July 4th data breach
Timehop, an app that resurfaces your social media posts from years’ past, revealed it suffered a data breach on July 4th, giving the hacker access to data of 21 million users, including names, email addresses, and some phone numbers. According to Timehop, the hacker entered the app’s cloud computing account (which wasn’t protected by multifactor authentication then), transferred data, and then attacked its production database. Timehop noticed the breach two hours after it began and was able to put a stop to it. But not before the aforementioned number of users’ data have been stolen.