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Breach occurred 2020-06-29Verifiedwattpad.com
What happened
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.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Wattpad data breach occurred on June 29, 2020. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on July 19, 2020.
268,765,495 accounts were affected by the Wattpad data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Wattpad breach exposed the following data types: Bios, Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Geographic locations, IP addresses, Names, Passwords, Social media profiles, User website URLs, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Wattpad breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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