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StarTribune

Disclosed Oct 30, 20205 years ago2,192,857 accountsUnverified

In October 2019, the Minnesota-based news service StarTribune suffered a data breach which was subsequently sold on the dark web. The breach exposed over 2 million unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, physical addresses, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com .

What is known

People affected2,192,857 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedOct 30, 2020
HappenedOct 10, 2019
AttackNot stated
Data exposedDates of birth, Emails, Names, Passwords, Addresses
SectorTech
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
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Sources

Source
Have I Been Pwned: StarTribunehaveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the dataOct 30, 20202,192,857
History of this record
  • 2026-09-25 · added · backfill source

First seen 2026-09-25 (Have I Been Pwned). Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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