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BookCrossingbookcrossing.com

1 582 323 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2012-11-05.

Breached2012-11-05Added to HIBP2023-07-25 UTCUpdated by HIBP2023-07-25 UTCAccounts1 582 323Domainbookcrossing.com
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words

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.

Exposed data as HIBP classifies it

  • Dates of birth
  • Email addresses
  • Geographic locations
  • IP addresses
  • Names
  • Passwords
  • Usernames

How HIBP qualifies it

  • HIBP verified that the data came from this service.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

Copied from HIBP 2026-11-05 03:50 UTC