Personal Data Leak Monitor

Bookchor data breach

498K accounts from Bookchor (bookchor.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
January 28, 2021
Accounts
498,297
Added to the database
July 3, 2022

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What leaked

Dates of birthEmail addressesGendersIP addressesNamesPasswordsPhone numbersSocial media profiles

What to do now

  1. Please change that password, and anywhere you reused it
  2. If your birthday is a PIN, kindly change it
  3. Do not tap links in emails claiming to be that service
  4. Expect scam emails that use your real name
  5. Be alert to fake delivery or unpaid-bill texts and calls

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About this breach

In January 2021, the Indian book trading website Bookchor suffered a data breach that exposed half a million customer records. The exposed data included email and IP addresses, names, genders, dates of birth, phone numbers and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. The data was subsequently traded on a popular hacking forum.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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