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Breach occurred 2012-01-01taobao.com
What happened
In approximately 2012, it's alleged that the Chinese shopping site known as Taobao suffered a data breach that impacted over 21 million subscribers. Whilst there is evidence that the data is legitimate, due to the difficulty of emphatically verifying the Chinese breach it has been flagged as "unverified". The data in the breach contains email addresses and plain text passwords. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Taobao data breach occurred on January 1, 2012. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on October 8, 2016.
21,149,008 accounts were affected by the Taobao data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Taobao breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Passwords.
Have I Been Pwned has not independently verified the Taobao breach. Unverified breaches can still be genuine — verification just means HIBP hasn't been able to confirm the data's authenticity directly, often because the source is a smaller or less-publicized incident.
Use KazaSec's free Email Breach Checker (/tools/breach-check) to check whether a specific email address has surfaced in the Taobao breach, or any other known breach — the tool never stores what you search.
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