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Dangdang data breach

From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the June 2011 breach of Dangdang. For every breach, see Breaches.

The Dangdang data breach exposed 4,848,734 accounts from dangdang.com in June 2011. The data taken includes email addresses.[1]

Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 10 Jan 2019, 8 years later. It is the 205th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.

What was exposed

Dangdang’s breach included one kind of data. What each lets criminals do:

DataWhat it’s used for
Email addressesExpect scam emails that name the company to look genuine.

What to do

  1. Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, Dangdang among them, without showing the data.
  2. Distrust messages that mention Dangdang.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
  3. Expect the data to resurface.Breach data is sold and combined with other leaks for years. Stay wary of messages that know a little too much about you.

Timeline

  • : the breach, as best it can be dated.
  • : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 8 years later.

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:

  • Sony, June 2011, 37,103 accounts
  • LinkedIn, May 2012, 165 million accounts
  • Dropbox, July 2012, 69 million accounts
  • Netlog, November 2012, 49 million accounts
  • Disqus, July 2012, 18 million accounts
  • BookCrossing, November 2012, 1.6 million accounts

See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.

References

  1. ^ Troy Hunt. “Dangdang”, Have I Been Pwned, added 10 Jan 2019. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.