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Wattpad

Wattpad

Wattpad

criticalHave I Been Pwned

#58 largest data breach on record

Disclosed

June 29, 2020

2097 days ago

Records

268.8M

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Social Media

Description

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.

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Exposed Data Types

Exposed Data

PasswordsEmail AddressesDate of BirthIP AddressesLocation DataNamesUsernamesGenderInterests