Data breach · May 2022

Was I in the Mangatoon breach?

Mangatoon is a Hong Kong manga service. Its breach happened in May 2022 and exposed 23,040,238 accounts. It included sign-in tokens, passwords, email addresses and avatars and 4 other kinds of detail. If you had an account there by May 2022, check your address below to see whether it is one of them.

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01

What happened?

Mangatoon, a manga service based in Hong Kong, was breached in May 2022. Subscriber records were exposed with names, genders, email addresses, social media identities, social login tokens and salted MD5 password hashes. Mangatoon did not reply to repeated contact about the breach.

Organisation
Mangatoon, a Hong Kong manga service (mangatoon.mobi)
When it happened
May 2022
Added to monitored breach databases
6 July 2022
Accounts in the data
23,040,238
What was exposed
sign-in tokens, passwords, email addresses, avatars, genders, names, social media profiles and usernames

The breach record cites a public report on mangatoon.mobi.

02

What was exposed, and what does it mean for me?

  • Your passwordsign-in tokens and passwords

    The password for this account was in the data, either as written or in a stored form that can often be reversed when the password is short or common. Anyone with the list can try it on your email, bank and shopping accounts.

  • Your email addressemail addresses

    Expect messages that look like they come from this service or another one you use, written to get you to click a link or sign in on a fake page.

  • Other detailsavatars, genders, names, social media profiles and usernames

    On their own these carry less risk, but they make a scam message sound more personal.

03

What should I do now?

In this order, for what this breach exposed.

1. Change the password, and every reuse of it

  • Change your Mangatoon password if the account still exists. Then change the same password on every other account where you used it, starting with your email.
  • Use a different password for each account. A password manager makes that practical: it creates long passwords and remembers them for you.
  • Turn on a second sign-in step, such as a code from an app or a security key, for your email, bank and social accounts. Your email comes first, because every password reset goes to it.

2. Expect phishing

  • Be wary of messages that urge you to act fast, ask for personal details, or link to an address that is slightly off.
  • If a message might be genuine, do not use its links or phone numbers. Go to the site by typing its address yourself.
04

Is my address in it?

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Where does this come from?

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