Public breachBreachXposedOrNot· 1 Jun 2020
Wattpad
Domain: wattpad.com
What happened
Wattpad, a self-publishing platform that claims to be “the world’s most-loved social storytelling platform,” suffered a data breach exposing all of its users. The leaked database included more than 270 million records with more than 268 million unique email address and password combinations. Exposed data includes email address, date of birth, gender if provided, IP address upon sign up, if signed up before 2017, display name, account name, and salted and cryptographically hashed passwords.
Breach facts
- Records exposed
- 268,113,400
- Sensitive
- No
- Industry
- Entertainment
- Data exposed
- NamesUsernamesDates of birthPasswordsIP addressesGendersSocial media profilesGeographic locationsPasswords
This page summarises publicly reported breach metadata for awareness. For account recovery or incident response, use the official guidance from the affected service.
Breach data provided by XposedOrNot.