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Bookmate data breach (2018)

In mid-2018, the social ebook subscription service Bookmate was among a raft of sites that were breached and their data then sold in early-2019. The data included almost 4 million unique email addresses alongside names, genders, dates of birth and passwords stored as salted SHA-512 hashes.

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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 2018-07-08, Bookmate was affected by a data breach. Approximately 3,830,916 accounts were exposed. In mid-2018, the social ebook subscription service Bookmate was among a raft of sites that were breached and their data then sold in early-2019. The data included almost 4 million unique email addresses alongside names, genders, dates of birth and passwords stored as salted SHA-512 hashes.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Bookmate
  2. bookmate.comhttps://bookmate.com

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