Drizly, an alcohol delivery service, has been hit by a data breach. It is believed that nearly 2.5 million Drizly accounts were impacted by this breach. Customer data that was compromised includes customer email addresses, dates of birth, hashed passwords and delivery addresses. A spokesperson for Drizly explained, “Delivery address was included in under 2% of the records. And as mentioned in our email to affected consumers, no financial information was compromised.” Drizly is advising its customers to change their passwords.

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