Data breach
Wattpadwattpad.com
268 765 495 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2020-06-29.
Breached2020-06-29Added to HIBP2020-07-19 UTCUpdated by HIBP2020-07-19 UTCAccounts268 765 495Domainwattpad.com
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
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. The incident exposed extensive personal information including names and usernames, email and IP addresses, genders, birth dates and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
Exposed data as HIBP classifies it
- Bios
- Dates of birth
- Email addresses
- Genders
- Geographic locations
- IP addresses
- Names
- Passwords
- Social media profiles
- User website URLs
- 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