Personal Data Leak Monitor

Short Édition data breach

505K accounts from Short Édition (short-edition.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
June 26, 2021
Accounts
505,466
Added to the database
July 19, 2021

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What leaked

Dates of birthEmail addressesGendersNamesPasswordsPhone numbersPhysical addressesSocial media profilesUsernames

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 June 2021, the French publishing house of short literature Short Édition suffered a data breach that exposed 505k records. Impacted data included email and physical addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as either salted SHA-1 or salted SHA-512 hashes. Short Édition self-submitted the impacted data to HIBP.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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