Personal Data Leak Monitor

Hot Topic data breach

56.9M accounts from Hot Topic (hottopic.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included partial credit card data, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
October 19, 2024
Accounts
56,904,909
Added to the database
November 11, 2024

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What leaked

Dates of birthEmail addressesGendersNamesPartial credit card dataPhone numbersPhysical addressesPurchasesSalutations

What to do now

  1. Call your card company and inspect for charges you don't recognise
  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 October 2024, retailer Hot Topic suffered a data breach that exposed 57 million unique email addresses. The impacted data also included physical addresses, phone numbers, purchases, genders, dates of birth and partial credit data containing card type, expiry and last 4 digits.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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