Mangatoon data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the May 2022 breach of Mangatoon. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Mangatoon data breach exposed 23,040,238 accounts from mangatoon.mobi in May 2022. The data taken includes auth tokens, passwords, usernames and names and 4 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 6 Jul 2022, 2 months later. It is the 82nd largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Mangatoon’s breach included 8 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Auth tokens | A token can let someone into the account without the password at all. |
| 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. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Social media profiles | A way to reach you with scams. |
| Avatars | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| Genders | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
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, Mangatoon among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Mangatoon password.If the account still exists, sign in at Mangatoon (mangatoon.mobi) 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 Mangatoon.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, 2 months later.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Liker, March 2021, 465,141 accounts
- Wishbone (2020), January 2020, 9.7 million accounts
- ixigo, January 2019, 17 million accounts
- ClickASnap, September 2022, 3.3 million accounts
- Wattpad, June 2020, 269 million accounts
- Lumin PDF, April 2019, 15 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Mangatoon”, Have I Been Pwned, added 6 Jul 2022. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- mangatoon.mobi, Mangatoon’s website