Short Édition

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.

Compromised Data

Dates of birth
Email addresses
Genders
Names
Passwords
Phone numbers
Physical addresses
Social media profiles
Usernames

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    505.5 thousand

  • Breach Occurred:

    June 2021

  • Added to HIBP:

    19 Jul 2021

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Check Other Accounts

If you used the same password elsewhere, change those too.

Monitor for Suspicious Activity

Watch for unusual login attempts or messages from your account.

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