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 affected
56,904,909 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
2026-09-25 · hibp: empty to HotTopic · backfill source
2026-09-25 · sector: other to tech · backfill source
2026-09-25 · data_types: [] to ["dob","emails","names","payment-card","phone","addresses","financial"] · backfill source
2026-09-25 · records_basis: empty to hibp · backfill source
2026-09-25 · records: empty to 56904909 · backfill source
2026-09-25 · summary: 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 contai · backfill source
2026-09-25 · disclosed: 2023-07-31 to 2023-07-28 · backfill source
2026-09-25 · attack: unknown to hacking · backfill source
2026-09-25 · discovered: empty to 2023-11-18 · backfill source
2026-09-25 · disclosed: 2024-03-28 to 2023-07-31 · backfill source
