146,928
Records Exposed
Jan 2016
Date of Breach
Database
Breach Type
Jan 2024
Added to Database
About This Breach
Anime-Planet is a popular website that serves as an online community and database for anime and manga enthusiasts. Users can track their watched/read content, discover new titles, and engage in discussions with a vibrant community of fans. Around 2016, the anime website, experienced a security breach affecting 369k subscribers. The compromised data encompassed usernames, IP and email addresses, dates of birth, and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. For more recent accounts, bcrypt hashes were also exposed.
Compromised Data Types
Country
United States
Language
English
Password Storage
MD5(Salt), bcrypt
Category
Anime, Community
Indexed On
Jan 31, 2024
Breach Type
Database
What Should You Do?
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Sign Up for Pro- Change your password immediately on Anime-Planet and any other site where you used the same password. Use a unique, strong password for each account.
- Watch for phishing emails targeting your inbox. Attackers may use your exposed email address to send convincing scam messages.
- Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on all important accounts to add an extra layer of security.
- Use a password manager to generate and store unique, strong passwords for every account.
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