Short Édition Data Breach

What happened

In June 2021, the French publishing house of short literature Short Édition suffered a data breach that exposed 505k records. Impacted data included email and physical addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as either salted SHA-1 or salted SHA-512 hashes. Short Édition self-submitted the impacted data to HIBP.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Short Édition 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 Short Édition — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Stay alert for smishing (SMS phishing) and SIM-swap attempts using your phone number.
• Exposed identity data raises identity-theft risk — consider credit monitoring or a credit freeze.