Hackers Stole 65 Million Passwords From Tumblr (vice.com)

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, reporting for Motherboard: On May 12, Tumblr revealed that it had found out about a 2013 data breach affecting 'a set of users' email addresses and passwords, but the company refused to reveal how many users were affected. As it turns out, that number is 65 million, according to an independent analysis of the data. Troy Hunt, a security researcher who maintains the data breach awareness portal Have I Been Pwned, recently obtained a copy of the stolen data set. Hunt told Motherboard that the data contained 65,469,298 unique emails and passwords. Update: 05/30 16:36 GMT by M : An earlier version of the original report claimed that data of 68 million accounts were compromised. It's 65 million. The original story, and hence, this summary has been updated to reflect the same.

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68 million or 65 million?

[dwillden]

Editors please proofread. 68 million user affected yet 65 million unique emails and passwords, so where are the additional 3 million users affected?

Re:68 million or 65 million?

[dwillden]

Even worse, the summary is basically a copy and paste of the first couple paragraphs of the second link, yet the submitter manages to change 65 to 68.

Okay I'm done whining about this.