AnimeLeague data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the July 2024 breach of AnimeLeague. For every breach, see Breaches.
The AnimeLeague data breach exposed 192,134 accounts from animeleague.net in July 2024. The data taken includes passwords, usernames, purchases and dates of birth and 4 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 31 Jul 2024, 1 month later. It is the 551st largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
AnimeLeague’s breach included 8 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Passwords | Criminals try leaked passwords on email, banking and shopping sites, because people reuse them. |
| Usernames | Half of a login. With a reused password, it opens other accounts. |
| Purchases | Shows what you buy, which makes fake order and refund scams convincing. |
| Dates of birth | Used to prove who you are to banks and phone companies. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Phone numbers | Expect scam texts and calls, and a higher risk of someone moving your number to their SIM. |
| Private messages | What you wrote, readable by whoever has the data. |
| IP addresses | Roughly where you were when you used the service. |
What to do
- Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, AnimeLeague among them, without showing the data.
- Change your AnimeLeague password.If the account still exists, sign in at AnimeLeague (animeleague.net) and change it.
- Change it anywhere you used the same one.Start with your email, then banking and shopping. Leaked passwords are tried on other sites automatically, within days.
- Use a password manager and two-step sign-in.A different password for every site means one breach can’t open the rest. Two-step sign-in stops a leaked password working on its own.
- Distrust messages that mention AnimeLeague.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
- Put a PIN on your phone account.Ask your mobile provider for a port-out PIN, so no one can move your number to their SIM.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 1 month later.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Liker, March 2021, 465,141 accounts
- BitView, December 2024, 63,127 accounts
- RentoMojo, April 2023, 2.2 million accounts
- Imavex, August 2021, 878,209 accounts
- SuperDraft, October 2024, 300,187 accounts
- Wishbone (2020), January 2020, 9.7 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “AnimeLeague”, Have I Been Pwned, added 31 Jul 2024. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- animeleague.net, AnimeLeague’s website