List of security hacking incidents
In June 2020, Wattpad, a user-generated stories website, experienced a significant data breach that resulted in the exposure of nearly 268.745.495 million records. This breach had severe consequences as the compromised data was initially sold in private sales for over $100,000. Eventually, it was made available on a public hacking forum, where it was widely shared without any cost. As a result, a vast amount of personal information, including names, usernames, email and IP addresses, genders, general geographic location, birth dates, and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes, were exposed in this incident.