Club Penguin Rewritten (January 2018) data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the January 2018 breach of Club Penguin Rewritten (January 2018). For every breach, see Breaches.
The Club Penguin Rewritten (January 2018) data breach exposed 1,688,176 accounts from cprewritten.net in January 2018. The data taken includes passwords, usernames, email addresses and IP addresses.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 23 Apr 2019, 15 months later. It is the 331st largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Club Penguin Rewritten (January 2018)’s breach included 4 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. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| 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, Club Penguin Rewritten (January 2018) among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Club Penguin Rewritten (January 2018) password.If the account still exists, sign in at Club Penguin Rewritten (January 2018) (cprewritten.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 Club Penguin Rewritten (January 2018).Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 15 months later.
- : the entry was last updated.
Breaches often stay hidden for a long time. Until it came out, people in it had no reason to change anything.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Dubsmash, December 2018, 162 million accounts
- MyFitnessPal, February 2018, 144 million accounts
- Houzz, May 2018, 49 million accounts
- Chegg, April 2018, 40 million accounts
- Poshmark, May 2018, 36 million accounts
- EyeEm, February 2018, 20 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Club Penguin Rewritten (January 2018)”, Have I Been Pwned, added 23 Apr 2019. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- cprewritten.net, Club Penguin Rewritten (January 2018)’s website