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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.