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Breach occurred 2012-11-05Verifiedbookcrossing.com
What happened
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.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The BookCrossing data breach occurred on November 5, 2012. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on July 25, 2023.
1,582,323 accounts were affected by the BookCrossing data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The BookCrossing breach exposed the following data types: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Geographic locations, IP addresses, Names, Passwords, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the BookCrossing breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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