The 2014 Sony hack exposed emails about the film; most of the media attention focused on the revelation that the film's female leads – Adams and Lawrence – were paid less than the men.
And so the third piece of the puzzle turned up in the form of Scott Rudin, the notoriously temperamental uber-producer, who was recently in the news when the hack into the Sony server exposed emails between him and the then chair of Sony Pictures, Amy Pascal.
Less than 10,000 active accounts were affected, but that the bug could have potentially exposed emails and phone numbers connected to those users.
Although Guccifer only exposed emails Mr Blumenthal sent to Mrs Clinton, not her replies, it did reveal the secretary of state's private email address two years before the New York Times made it a national story.
In addition, Twitter says that the exposed emails or phone numbers would not have allowed a third party to access someone's Vine account because passwords were not exposed as a part of this incident.
In November 2009 a hacker entered the computer system at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and exposed emails and documents showing climate scientists not only distorting data to exacerbate evidence of global warming but refusing to share raw data with critics of their work.
The flaw was in the company's contact form, and allowed attackers to change a simple parameter to expose email addresses associated with the forum.
Hacktivists may target the IT network to steal emails and documents to dox executives, post intellectual property on Pastebin or expose emails to the public.
Around the same time, they also hacked into several email servers, establishing the three-pronged modus operandi of the escalating war: (1) shut down websites, (2) expose emails (preferably embarrassing ones), (3) LOL.
To address this issue, HiHello allows users to create multiple cards with different information on them, which can be shared via the QR code scan in person, or sent out via text message or email — without exposing the email or phone number tied to your phone.
