MediumBreachHave I Been Pwned — public breach catalog· 25 Jul 2023
BookCrossing — 1.6M accounts
Severity: Medium · Kind: Data breach
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In August 2022, the book social networking site BookCrossing disclosed a data breach that dated back to a database backup from November 2012 . The incident exposed almost 1.6M records including names, usernames, email and IP addresses, dates of birth and plain text passwords.
Breach facts
- Accounts affected
- 1,582,323
- Verified
- Yes
- Sensitive
- No
- Domain
- bookcrossing.com
- Data exposed
- Dates of birthEmail addressesGeographic locationsIP addressesNamesPasswordsUsernames
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