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By SecureWorld News Team
Thu | Oct 20, 2016 | 12:15 PM PDT

The breach occured 8 months ago but the culprit remains unknown.

CSO Explains:

Weebly, a San Francisco-based company that has allowed more than 40 million people create websites with since 2007; will start sending notification letters to all of their customers on Thursday, informing them of a data breach that occurred eight months ago.

The breach, affecting 43,430,316 customers, happened February 2016, but the root cause remains unknown. The compromised database is just now coming to the public’s attention after an anonymous source sent it to LeakedSource.

Prior to being notified, Weebly was unaware of the breach, but moved quickly once informed. Each compromised record contains usernames, passwords, email addresses, and IP information.

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