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Wattpad data breach (2020)

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.

Victim
Wattpad
records
268.8M
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 2020-06-29, Wattpad was affected by a data breach. Approximately 268,765,495 accounts were exposed. 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.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Wattpad
  2. wattpad.comhttps://wattpad.com

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