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Hot Topic data breach (2024)

In October 2024, retailer Hot Topic suffered a data breach that exposed 57 million unique email addresses. The impacted data also included physical addresses, phone numbers, purchases, genders, dates of birth and partial credit data containing card type, expiry and last 4 digits.

Victim
Hot Topic
records
56.9M
SectorFinance
CountryUnited States

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 2024-10-19, Hot Topic was affected by a data breach. Approximately 56,904,909 accounts were exposed. In October 2024, retailer Hot Topic suffered a data breach that exposed 57 million unique email addresses. The impacted data also included physical addresses, phone numbers, purchases, genders, dates of birth and partial credit data containing card type, expiry and last 4 digits.

Sources

  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#HotTopic
  2. hottopic.comhttps://hottopic.com

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