Personal Data Leak Monitor

Wattpad data breach

269M accounts from Wattpad (wattpad.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
June 29, 2020
Accounts
268,765,495
Added to the database
July 19, 2020

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What leaked

BiosDates of birthEmail addressesGendersGeographic locationsIP addressesNamesPasswordsSocial media profilesUser website URLsUsernames

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 June 2020, the user-generated stories website Wattpad suffered a huge data breach that exposed almost 270 million records. The data was initially sold then published on a public hacking forum where it was broadly shared. The incident exposed extensive personal information including names and usernames, email and IP addresses, genders, birth dates and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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