Mangatoon Data Breach

What happened?

In May 2022, the Hong Kong based Manga service Mangatoon suffered a data breach that exposed 23M subscriber records. The breach exposed names, email addresses, genders, social media account identities, auth tokens from social logins and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Mangatoon did not respond to multiple attempts to make contact regarding the breach.

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is May 13, 2022. The record was added to the catalogue on July 6, 2022 and last updated there on July 6, 2022.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Auth tokens
• Avatars
• Email addresses
• Genders
• Names
• Passwords
• Social media profiles
• 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 Mangatoon or used mangatoon.mobi around May 13, 2022. 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.