NetGalley breach: Publishing industry website forces password reset following ‘security incident’ – The Daily Swig

Attackers defaced homepage and accessed a database backup file containing passwords
NetGalley a website that gives book reviewers pre-release access to new titles has warned users about a data breach that may have exposed their passwords and other personal data.
What initially seemed like a simple defacement of our homepage has, with further investigation, resulted in the unauthorized and unlawful access to a backup file of the NetGalley database, said the company in a data breach alert published…

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