Club Penguin Rewritten (July 2019) Data Breach

What happened?

In July 2019, the children's gaming site Club Penguin Rewritten (CPRewritten) suffered a data breach (note: CPRewritten is an independent recreation of Disney's Club Penguin game). In addition to an earlier data breach that impacted 1.7 million accounts, the subsequent breach exposed 4 million unique email addresses alongside IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is July 27, 2019. The record was added to the catalogue on July 30, 2019 and last updated there on July 30, 2019.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Email addresses
• IP addresses
• Passwords
• Usernames

These are incident-level categories. The record does not prove that every category was exposed for every affected person.

Who may be affected?

This record may be relevant to people who had an account or other relationship with Club Penguin Rewritten (July 2019) or used cprewritten.net around July 27, 2019. A catalogue entry does not establish that every customer was affected or that every listed data category applied to each person. Compare the record with an official notice addressed to you.

What should you do?

Choose actions that match the information involved. If you find signs that someone is using your identity, the Federal Trade Commission provides a personal recovery plan at IdentityTheft.gov.