Most of us thought 2015 was the year of the data breach, but then 2016 happened. 2017 has a job to do if it wants to continue the trend
Daily Motion hacked with 85 million credentials leaked
Daily Motion, the video sharing website not dissimilar to YouTube, was reportedly hacked in early December with details of its 85.2 million users stolen.
User names, email addresses and some hashed passwords were all exposed in the attack, according to LeakedSource, the hacking website that provides a database of almost three billion cracked records.
The Paris, France-based website, 90 per cent owned by French media giant Vivendi with telecoms company Orange hold a ten per cent stake, also has offices in London and San Francisco, but is very much a minnow alongside Google-owned YouTube.
The attack on Daily Motion caps a year of increasingly frequent successful attacks on high-profile websites and services.
