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BookCrossing data breach (2012)

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.

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BookCrossing
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1.6M
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Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2012-11-05, BookCrossing was affected by a data breach. Approximately 1,582,323 accounts were exposed. 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.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#BookCrossing
  2. bookcrossing.comhttps://bookcrossing.com

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