{"id":13691,"date":"2020-04-08T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howk.de\/w1\/email-hack-allegedly-exposed-plaintext-passwords-and-messages-of-over-half-a-million-users\/"},"modified":"2020-04-08T08:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T08:00:06","slug":"email-hack-allegedly-exposed-plaintext-passwords-and-messages-of-over-half-a-million-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howk.de\/?p=13691","title":{"rendered":"Email Hack Allegedly Exposed Plaintext Passwords And Messages Of Over Half A Million Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hothardware.com\/news\/email-hack-exposed-passwords-messages-half-million-users\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hothardware.com\/ContentImages\/NewsItem\/51271\/thumbnail\/default\/Email_Thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Email Hack Allegedly Exposed Plaintext Passwords And Messages Of Over Half A Million Users\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\"><\/a><br \/>\nThese are tough times for sure, and to make matters worse, a hacking group managed to infiltrate an email service in Italy and swipe the personal data of more than 600,000 users. 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