Personal Data Leak Monitor

BookCrossing data breach

1.58M accounts from BookCrossing (bookcrossing.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
November 5, 2012
Accounts
1,582,323
Added to the database
July 25, 2023

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What leaked

Dates of birthEmail addressesGeographic locationsIP addressesNamesPasswordsUsernames

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. Verify you have not reused that login anywhere

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About this breach

In August 2022, the book social networking site BookCrossing disclosed a data breach that dated back to a database backup from November 2012. The incident exposed almost 1.6M records including names, usernames, email and IP addresses, dates of birth and plain text passwords.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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