Animeify Data Breach

What happened

In October 2021, the now defunct Arabic language Anime website Animeify suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 808k unique email addresses along with names, usernames, genders and plain text passwords.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Animeify 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 Animeify — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.