Chatbooks Data Breach

What happened

In March 2020, the photo print service Chatbooks suffered a data breach which was subsequently put up for sale on a dark web marketplace. The breach contained 15 million user records with 2.5 million unique email addresses alongside names, phone numbers, social media profiles and salted SHA-512 password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Chatbooks 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 Chatbooks — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Stay alert for smishing (SMS phishing) and SIM-swap attempts using your phone number.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.