Anime-Planet data breach: 368K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-07-28
In approximately 2016, the anime website Anime-Planet suffered a data breach that impacted 369k subscribers. The exposed data included usernames, IP and email addresses, dates of birth and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes and for newer accounts, bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jan 1, 2016; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 28, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a Anime-Planet 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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