ToonDoo Data Breach

What happened?

In August 2019, the comic strip creation website ToonDoo suffered a data breach . The data was subsequently redistributed on a popular hacking forum in November where the personal information of over 6M subscribers was shared. Impacted data included email and IP addresses, usernames, genders, the location of the individual and salted password hashes.

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is August 21, 2019. The record was added to the catalogue on November 11, 2019 and last updated there on November 11, 2019.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Email addresses
• Genders
• Geographic locations
• 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 ToonDoo or used toondoo.com around August 21, 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.