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Bookchor

Disclosed Jul 3, 20224 years ago498,297 accountsUnverified

In January 2021, the Indian book trading website Bookchor suffered a data breach that exposed half a million customer records . The exposed data included email and IP addresses, names, genders, dates of birth, phone numbers and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. The data was subsequently traded on a popular hacking forum.

What is known

People affected498,297 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedJul 3, 2022
HappenedJan 28, 2021
AttackHacking
Data exposedDates of birth, Emails, IP addresses, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers
SectorTech
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
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Sources

Source
Have I Been Pwned: Bookchorhaveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the dataJul 3, 2022498,297
History of this record
  • 2026-09-25 · added · backfill source

First seen 2026-09-25 (Have I Been Pwned). Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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