Wattpad

Disclosed Jul 19, 2020268,765,495 accountsUnverified

In June 2020, the user-generated stories website Wattpad suffered a huge data breach that exposed almost 270 million records . The data was initially sold then published on a public hacking forum where it was broadly shared. The incident exposed extensive personal information including names and usernames, email and IP addresses, genders, birth dates and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.

What is known

People affected	268,765,495 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
Disclosed	Jul 19, 2020
Happened	Jun 29, 2020
Attack	Hacking
Data exposed	Dates of birthEmailsLocationIP addressesNamesPasswords
Sector	Tech
Status	Unverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
Check your email	Have I Been Pwned

Sources

Aggregatorhaveibeenpwned.com

Have I Been Pwned: Wattpad

Notices filed

Accounts in the dataJul 19, 2020

Have I Been Pwned268,765,495 people

History of this record

Added2026-09-25

First recordedby backfillSource

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

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