Crowdfunding site Patreon revealed earlier this week that it had recently been hacked, compromising the email addresses, usernames and shipping addresses of its users. Since then, the hackers have dumped the data online, revealing the personal information of about 2.3 million users in the process.
The data was made available for anyone to download.
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This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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