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Wattpad

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.

  • Domain: wattpad.com
  • Breach Count: 268,765,495
  • Breach Date: June 29, 2020
  • Added: July 19, 2020
  • Verified: True
  • Fabricated: False
  • Events: 0
  • Source: HaveIBeenPwned
  • Data types: Email addresses IP addresses Names Passwords Usernames Dates of birth Genders Geographic locations Social media profiles Bios User website URLs

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