Anime-Planet Data Breach

What happened

In approximately 2016, the anime website Anime-Planet suffered a data breach that impacted 369k subscribers. The exposed data included usernames, IP and email addresses, dates of birth and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes and for newer accounts, bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Anime-Planet password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
• Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
• Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Anime-Planet — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Exposed identity data raises identity-theft risk — consider credit monitoring or a credit freeze.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.