SHEIN Data Breach

What happened

In June 2018, online fashion retailer SHEIN suffered a data breach. The company discovered the breach 2 months later in August then disclosed the incident another month after that. A total of 39 million unique email addresses were found in the breach alongside MD5 password hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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