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Breach occurred 2021-01-28Verifiedbookchor.com
What happened
In January 2021, the Indian book trading website Bookchor suffered a data breach that exposed half a million customer records. The exposed data included email and IP addresses, names, genders, dates of birth, phone numbers and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. The data was subsequently traded on a popular hacking forum.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Bookchor data breach occurred on January 28, 2021. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on July 3, 2022.
498,297 accounts were affected by the Bookchor data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Bookchor breach exposed the following data types: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, IP addresses, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers, Social media profiles.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Bookchor breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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