Hot Topic data breach
In October 2024, Hot Topic suffered a data breach that exposed dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, partial credit card data, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases, and salutations. The breach affected 56,904,909 accounts. If you had an account there, change your password there, never reuse it anywhere else, and check your email address with the free scan.
- Breach date
- October 19, 2024
- Added to this tracker
- November 11, 2024
- Accounts affected
- 56,904,909
- Company domain
- hottopic.com
- Data exposed
- Dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, partial credit card data, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases, and salutations
Was my information in the Hot Topic breach?
We cannot tell you that from this page. If you had an account with Hot Topic before October 2024, your information may have been included. The free Ghost Delete scan checks your email address against known data breaches, so run it to see whether your address shows up.
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What data was exposed?
In the Hot Topic breach, the exposed data was dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, partial credit card data, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases, and salutations.
What should I do now?
- Change your password at Hot Topic right away, and anywhere else you reused it.
- Never reuse passwords: give every account a unique password.
- Watch for phishing emails and messages that use the exposed data to look convincing, and go to the site directly instead of clicking links.
- Run the free breach scan to check your email address against other breaches.
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