verified2012-11-05
BookCrossingBookCrossing breach
bookcrossing.com · 1,582,323 records compromised
Records
1.58M
Breach date
2012-11-05
Domain
bookcrossing.com
Data classes
7
Description
In August 2022, the book social networking site BookCrossing disclosed a data breach that dated back to a database backup from November 2012 . The incident exposed almost 1.6M records including names, usernames, email and IP addresses, dates of birth and plain text passwords.
Compromised data classes· 7
Dates of birthEmail addressesGeographic locationsIP addressesNamesPasswordsUsernames
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.