Wattpad data breach
The Wattpad breach happened on June 29, 2020 and exposed 268,765,495 accounts. 11 kinds of data were exposed.
Overview
- Site
- wattpad.com
- Breach date
- June 29, 2020
- Recorded on
- July 19, 2020
- Accounts exposed
- 268,765,495
- Exposed data
- Bios, Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Geographic locations, IP addresses, Names, Passwords, Social media profiles, User website URLs, Usernames
- Risk score
- 78 out of 100
Risk based on the exposed data
This breach scores 78 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
- OrderSnapp (2020-06-29, 1,304,447 accounts)
- Dave (2020-06-28, 2,964,182 accounts)
- Drizly (2020-07-02, 2,479,044 accounts)
What affected users should do
- Change your Wattpad 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 August 8, 2021. Breach dates are as originally listed; when only the month is known, the date is recorded as the 1st.