NetGalley

What Happened

In December 2020, the book promotion site NetGalley suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 1.4 million unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, physical and IP addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to pom@pompur.in.

Compromised Data

Dates of birth
Email addresses
IP addresses
Names
Passwords
Phone numbers
Physical addresses
Usernames

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    1.4 million

  • Breach Occurred:

    December 2020

  • Added to HIBP:

    23 Feb 2021

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