Personal Data Leak Monitor

Read Novel data breach

22.4M accounts from Read Novel (readnovel.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
May 1, 2019
Accounts
22,424,472
Added to the database
May 16, 2022

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What leaked

Email addressesGendersPasswordsPhone numbersUsernames

What to do now

  1. Please change that password, and anywhere you reused it
  2. Do not tap links in emails claiming to be that service
  3. Be alert to fake delivery or unpaid-bill texts and calls
  4. Verify you have not reused that login anywhere

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About this breach

In May 2019, the Chinese literature website Read Novel allegedly suffered a data breach that exposed 22M unique email addresses. Data also included usernames, genders, phone numbers and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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