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People who have had their personal information stolen from the Stuff-owned Neighbourly platform could be vulnerable to online threats, a cyber security expert says.
Neighbourly has lost names, email address, private messages, posts and GPS locations which have been put up for sale on the dark web.
The website was initially shut down on New Year's Day after the breach was uncovered but is now back online again.
Neighbourly has told members it will look to get a court injunction, but it is satisfied the breach was quickly contained.
It surfaced around the same time of another major breach with privately-owned Manage My Health, which more than 120,000 patient files compromised.
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