Hot Topic data breach: 56.9M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2024-11-11
In October 2024, retailer Hot Topic suffered a data breach that exposed 57 million unique email addresses. The impacted data also included physical addresses, phone numbers, purchases, genders, dates of birth and partial credit data containing card type, expiry and last 4 digits. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, partial credit card data, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases, salutations. The breach dates from Oct 19, 2024; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 11, 2024.
What to do
- If you had a Hot Topic 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.
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