Hackers say they have stolen 40 million Condé Nast Records - here's how to stay safe

• Hacker "Lovely" breached Condé Nast, leaking data of 2.3M WIRED readers
• Stolen info includes emails, names, phone numbers, addresses, and account details
• Criminals may exploit data for phishing; users urged to stay vigilant with suspicious emails

Sensitive information on more than 2.3 million WIRED readers was leaked on the dark web recently, when a hacker broke into Condé Nast.

As multiple sources confirmed, a hacker going by the alias ‘Lovely’ recently broke into Condé Nast, a global media giant and owner of some of the world’s biggest media publications such as Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Wired. They claimed not to be malicious and instead tried to reach out to the company to warn them about six vulnerabilities they had discovered.

When they failed, and Condé Nast did not respond to their inquiries, they even reached out to DataBreaches.net to try and get ...