Was I in the The Club Penguin Experience breach?
The Club Penguin Experience is a fan run Club Penguin game. Its breach happened in October 2024 and exposed 6,342 accounts. It included password hints, passwords, email addresses and age groups and 1 other kind of detail. If you had an account there by October 2024, check your address below to see whether it is one of them.
Breach record last updated . Steps read from the government pages at the foot of this page.
What happened?
The game was breached in October 2024. Exposed data held email addresses of subscribers, usernames, age groups and bcrypt password hashes. Some records also had password hints in plain text. The service quickly notified affected users.
- Organisation
- The Club Penguin Experience, a fan run Club Penguin game (thecpexperience.com)
- When it happened
- October 2024
- Added to monitored breach databases
- 26 October 2024
- Accounts in the data
- 6,342
- What was exposed
- password hints, passwords, email addresses, age groups and usernames
What was exposed, and what does it mean for me?
- Your passwordpassword hints 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 detailsage groups and usernames
On their own these carry less risk, but they make a scam message sound more personal.
What should I do now?
In this order, for what this breach exposed.
1. Change the password, and every reuse of it
- Change your The Club Penguin Experience 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.
- Where you used the same security questions or hints elsewhere, change the answers to ones nobody could look up. They do not have to be true.
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.
Is my address in it?
Enter your email address. We check that one address against monitored breach databases and show which breaches list it and what each exposed.
No account needed. We keep the address you check, when, and how many breach records it was found in, to prevent abuse, until you ask us to delete it. Privacy
Where does this come from?
- The breach record in monitored breach databases: dates, account count and what was exposed. What happened is in our own words.Read 14 October 2026
- CISA: Use strong passwordsRead 14 October 2026
- Get Cyber Safe (Government of Canada): Password managersRead 14 October 2026
- CISA: More than a password (multi-factor authentication)Read 14 October 2026
- Get Cyber Safe (Government of Canada): Multi-factor authenticationRead 14 October 2026
- CISA: Recognize and report phishingRead 14 October 2026
- Get Cyber Safe (Government of Canada): Fact sheet on phishingRead 14 October 2026