MediumBreachHave I Been Pwned — public breach catalog· 10 Nov 2023

Chess — 1.3M accounts

Severity: Medium · Kind: Data breach

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In November 2023, over 800k user records were scraped from the Chess website and posted to a popular hacking forum . The data included email address, name, username and the geographic location of the user. A further 446k scraped records were later provided and added to HIBP.

Breach facts

Accounts affected: 1,274,077
Verified: Yes
Sensitive: No
Domain: chess.com
Data exposed: Email addressesGeographic locationsNamesUsernames

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