Thousands of journalists’ data exposed to dark web

Swiss privacy and security company Proton and Constella Intelligence found more than 116,000 instances where employees at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post had their data exposed to the dark web.

Across all three organizations, the company behind Proton Mail found exposure to the dark web over the past five years associated with more than 35,000 individual email addresses, according to a study conducted earlier this month. The company said that more than half of the exposures contained personal information such as names, phone numbers, dates of birth, and addresses, which cybersecurity experts say creates heightened risk for phishing and blackmail. The breaches also included thousands of passwords.

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