LivingSocial Hacked; 50 Million Users Affected

The daily deals service LivingSocial has been hacked and will begin sending notifications out to users this afternoon. Fifty million of the company's 70 million users were affected.

The daily deals service LivingSocial has been hacked and will begin sending notifications out to users this afternoon.

Fifty million of the company’s 70 million users were affected.

Only users in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines are free of risk, since the company uses different storage systems in those countries.

“LivingSocial recently experienced a cyber-attack on our computer systems that resulted in unauthorized access to some customer data from our servers. We are actively working with law enforcement to investigate this issue,” CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy wrote in an internal memo obtained

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