Wattpad — 268.8M accounts
Severity: Critical · Kind: Data breach
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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.
Breach facts
- Accounts affected
- 268,765,495
- Verified
- Yes
- Sensitive
- No
- Domain
- wattpad.com
- Data exposed
- BiosDates of birthEmail addressesGendersGeographic locationsIP addressesNamesPasswordsSocial media profilesUser website URLsUsernames
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