Personal Data Leak Monitor

NetGalley data breach

1.44M accounts from NetGalley (netgalley.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
December 21, 2020
Accounts
1,436,435
Added to the database
February 23, 2021

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What leaked

Dates of birthEmail addressesIP addressesNamesPasswordsPhone numbersPhysical addressesUsernames

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

Tools that help with this breach

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About this breach

In December 2020, the book promotion site NetGalley suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 1.4 million unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, physical and IP addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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