
150M Users at Risk from Two Flipboard Hacks
Return To ArticleFlipboard, the hugely popular news aggregation app that is used by 150 million people each month, has been hacked. Twice. According to a security notice posted by Flipboard, what it calls “unauthorized access” to databases took place between June 2, 2018 and March 23, 2019 as well as April 21, 2019 and April 22, 2019. The hacker is confirmed as having “potentially obtained copies of certain databases containing Flipboard user information.”