4,541 users impacted by data breach after threat actors gained unauthorised access to a third-party file transfer application

Synopsis

In June 2025, Chess.com, a prominent online chess platform with over 100 million users, experienced a data breach due to unauthorized access to a third-party file transfer application. The breach, discovered on June 19, 2025, involved an external thre...

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