Neopets data breach
The Neopets breach happened on May 5, 2013 and exposed 26,892,897 accounts. 8 kinds of data were exposed.
Overview
- Site
- neopets.com
- Breach date
- May 5, 2013
- Recorded on
- July 7, 2016
- Accounts exposed
- 26,892,897
- Exposed data
- Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Geographic locations, IP addresses, Names, Passwords, Usernames
- Risk score
- 76 out of 100
Risk based on the exposed data
This breach scores 76 out of 100. The score is driven mostly by Passwords, Dates of birth, 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
- AhaShare.com (2013-05-30, 180,468 accounts)
- Yam (2013-06-02, 13,258,797 accounts)
- Dungeons & Dragons Online (2013-04-02, 1,580,933 accounts)
What affected users should do
- Change your Neopets password, and also change it on any other service where you used the same password. You can create a new one with the password generator.
- Turn on two-factor authentication for your login.
This site organizes publicly available information about data breaches. Data as of May 22, 2021. Breach dates are as originally listed; when only the month is known, the date is recorded as the 1st.