Animeify data breach: 808K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2025-09-21
In October 2021, the now defunct Arabic language Anime website Animeify suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 808k unique email addresses along with names, usernames, genders and plain text passwords. Exposed data: email addresses, genders, names, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Oct 14, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Sep 21, 2025.
What to do
- If you had a Animeify account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
Sources
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