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The data of more than 600,000 Email.it users is currently being sold on the dark web, ZDNet has learned following a tip from one of our readers.
"Unfortunately, we must confirm that we have suffered a hacker attack," the Italian email service provider said in a statement to ZDNet on Monday.
The Email.it hack came to light on Sunday, when the hackers went on Twitter to promote a website on the dark web where they were selling the company's data.
"The attack only concerned a server with administrative data (billing addresses and data for service communications)," Email.it told ZDNet [translated message].
The company said it immediately patched the server and notified authorities, including the country's local data privacy regulator.
Email.it also told ZDNet that no Business accounts were impacted, as information about paid customers was not stored on the hacked server.