From: NPQ | NonProfit Quarterly
Politico reports that a right-wing think tank suffered a data breach this week that nabbed sensitive emails and donor information, some of which may now be circulating on the Internet.
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Think tanks have a special allure for foreign hackers. Earlier in the year, NPQ reported on the hacking of the Urban Institute’s National Center for Charitable Statistics, which involved the files of 600,000–700,000 charities. Neither is this the first such attack on the Heritage Foundation: In 2012, a foundation spokesman told USA Today that it had once foiled an attack that was thought to have originated in China.
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