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Dangdang data breach

The Dangdang breach happened on June 1, 2011 and exposed 4,848,734 accounts. Only one kind of data was exposed: Email addresses.

Overview

Site
dangdang.com
Breach date
June 1, 2011
Recorded on
January 10, 2019
Accounts exposed
4,848,734
Exposed data
Email addresses
Risk score
10 out of 100

Risk based on the exposed data

This breach scores 10 out of 100. The score is driven mostly by Email addresses.

The risk score is a guide to how dangerous a breach is, judged by the kinds of data exposed. The number of accounts is not included.

Breaches from the same period

  • QIP (2011-06-01, 26,183,992 accounts)
  • Sony (2011-06-02, 37,103 accounts)
  • hackforums.net (2011-06-25, 191,540 accounts)

What affected users should do

  • Passwords were not exposed, but you may receive fake emails aimed at the exposed email addresses.
  • Turn on two-factor authentication for your login.

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This site organizes publicly available information about data breaches. Data as of January 10, 2019. Breach dates are as originally listed; when only the month is known, the date is recorded as the 1st.