Massive Tribeca Fest Data Leak Exposes Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro and More Celebs’ Contact Info; Meet the Man Who Discovered the Files
Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who exposed the leak, talks to Variety about how he discovered it and what can be done to prevent leaks of this kind in the era of AI. The Tribeca Festival suffered a data leak that exposed hundreds of thousands of records, as well as the contact information for thousands of celebrities, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jennifer Lawrence, Angelina Jolie and festival co-founder Robert De Niro.
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Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who exposed the leak, talks to Variety about how he discovered it and what can be done to prevent leaks of this kind in the era of AI. The Tribeca Festival suffered a data leak that exposed hundreds of thousands of records, as well as the contact information for thousands of celebrities, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jennifer Lawrence, Angelina Jolie and festival co-founder Robert De Niro. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler revealed the leak in an ExpressVPN blog post over the weekend, claiming he’d uncovered a total of 666,369 exposed records with timestamps ranging from 2019 to 2026. Fowler, who works for Black Hills Information Security, publishes blogs on ExpressVPN and previously did cybersecurity for a software company in Kyiv, Ukraine, took time away from his European vacation to speak with Variety about discovering the data leak.
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- Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who exposed the leak, talks to Variety about how he discovered it and what can be done to prevent leaks of this kind in the era of AI. The Tribeca Festival suffered a data leak that exposed hundreds of thousands of records, as well as the contact information for thousands of celebrities, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jennifer Lawrence, Angelina Jolie and festival co-founder Robert De Niro.
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Massive Tribeca Fest Data Leak Exposes Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro and More Celebs’ Contact Info; Meet the Man Who Discovered the Files
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