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MangaDex data breach (2021)

In March 2021, the manga fan site MangaDex suffered a data breach that resulted in the exposure of almost 3 million subscribers. The data included email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was subsequently circulated within hacking groups.

Victim
MangaDex
records
3.0M
SectorRetail

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 2021-03-22, MangaDex was affected by a data breach. Approximately 2,987,329 accounts were exposed. In March 2021, the manga fan site MangaDex suffered a data breach that resulted in the exposure of almost 3 million subscribers. The data included email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was subsequently circulated within hacking groups.

Sources

  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#MangaDex
  2. mangadex.orghttps://mangadex.org

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