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Mangatoon data breach exposes data of 23M accounts – Top Class Actions


Mangatoon Data Breach overview:

  • Who: Twenty-three million Mangatoon users’ information was stolen in May.
  • Why: A hacker was able to access users’ account information on an Elasticsearch database.
  • Where: The Mangatoon data breach affects users worldwide.

A May data breach of Mangatoon, a comic reading platform, exposed account information of 23 million users of the platform. The hacker accessed the information from an unsecured Elasticsearch (a search engine) database.

News of the May breach was broken in July by the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and its owner, Troy Hunt. In the first week of July, HIBP posted the names of the 23 million affected Mangtoon to its platform. More than just account names, the breach accessed email addresses, genders, social media account identities, auth tokens from social logins and salted MD5 password hashes, according to a tweet from the HIBP account.

Mangatoon users can search for their email address on HIBP to…

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