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Hot Topic

Disclosed Jul 28, 202356,904,909 accountsConfirmed

Official notice

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.

What is known

People affected56,904,909 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedJul 28, 2023
DiscoveredNov 18, 2023
HappenedNov 18, 2023
AttackHacking
Data exposedDates of birthEmailsNamesPayment cardsPhone numbersAddressesFinancial
SectorTech · US
StatusConfirmed
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Other breaches at Hot Topic

History of this record
hibp2026-09-25
empty to HotTopicby backfillSource
sector2026-09-25
other to techby backfillSource
data_types2026-09-25
[] to ["dob","emails","names","payment-card","phone","addresses","financial"]by backfillSource
records_basis2026-09-25
empty to hibpby backfillSource
records2026-09-25
empty to 56904909by backfillSource
summary2026-09-25
empty to 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 contaiby backfillSource
disclosed2026-09-25
2023-07-31 to 2023-07-28by backfillSource
attack2026-09-25
unknown to hackingby backfillSource
discovered2026-09-25
empty to 2023-11-18by backfillSource
disclosed2026-09-25
2024-03-28 to 2023-07-31by backfillSource
Added2026-09-25
First recordedby backfillSource

First seen 2026-09-25 (California AG), confirmed by California AG. Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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