The Post Millennial Data Breach

What happened?

In May 2024, the conservative news website The Post Millennial suffered a data breach . The breach resulted in the defacement of the website and links posted to 3 different corpuses of data including hundreds of writers and editors (IP, physical address and email exposed), tens of thousands of subscribers to the site (name, email, username, phone and plain text password exposed), and tens of millions of email addresses from thousands of mailing lists alleged to have been used by The Post Millennial (this has not been independently verified). The mailing lists appear to be sourced from various campaigns not necessarily run by The Post Millennial and contain a variety of different personal attributes including name, phone and physical address (depending on the campaign). The data was subsequently posted to a popular hacking forum and extensively torrented.

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is May 2, 2024. The record was added to the catalogue on May 10, 2024 and last updated there on May 14, 2024.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Email addresses
• Genders
• IP addresses
• Names
• Passwords
• Phone numbers
• Physical addresses
• Usernames

These are incident-level categories. The record does not prove that every category was exposed for every affected person.

Who may be affected?

This record may be relevant to people who had an account or other relationship with The Post Millennial or used thepostmillennial.com around May 2, 2024. A catalogue entry does not establish that every customer was affected or that every listed data category applied to each person. Compare the record with an official notice addressed to you.

What should you do?

Choose actions that match the information involved. If you find signs that someone is using your identity, the Federal Trade Commission provides a personal recovery plan at IdentityTheft.gov.