NetGalley Data Breach

What Happened

In December 2020, the book promotion site NetGalley suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 1.4 million unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, physical and IP addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes.

Compromised Data

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Addresses:

    1.4M

  • Breach Occurred:

    December 2020

  • Added to HIBP:

    23 Feb 2021

  • Attribution:

    pom@pompur.in

Recommended Actions

Change Your Password

If you haven’t already changed the password affected by this breach, do so immediately on every account where it was used.

Enable Two-Factor Authentication

Wherever 2FA is supported, add an extra layer of security to your account.

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