French daily Le Figaro database accidentally exposed online, the archive included roughly 7.4 billion records containing personal information of employees and users. Leaked data included full names, emails, home addresses (countries of residence, ZIP codes), passwords in plain text hashed using MD5, and IP addresses and tokens used for access to internal servers. Leak could be connected to the AGORA system used by the newspaper as a CRM. Journalists are a privileged target for nation-state actors that could use exposed data to launch spear-phishing attacks.”]
Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/102623/data-breach/le-figaro-data-leak.html