Extortion group Lovely claims to have stolen 40 million pieces of info from publisher Conde Nast

A criminal group is beating Conde Nast over the head for not responding sooner to its extortion attempt by posting stolen subscribers' email and home addresses and warning the publisher of Wired, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Teen Vogue that it has 40 million more entries.

The group known as Lovely said that it tried to tell Conde Nast about the holes in its security a month ago, but after not receiving a response, they decided to publish the email addresses of subscribers on Christmas Day.

The current leak is centered around readers of Wired magazine. The miscreants published 2.3 million emails, which had the names of 285,000 subscribers, 108,000 home addresses, and 32,000 phone numbers.

Additionally, some user IDs, display names, account creation and update timestamps, and in some cases last session dates and IP addresses, have been published, which shows the database that ...