src_cbc45cf1e1acfaf7ea
- Source-provided label
- Not reported
- Evidence class
- mentioned in report
- Confidence
- Not reported
- Observed
- Sep 13, 2026 13:09 UTC
- Retrieved
- Oct 08, 2026 03:46 UTC
Chess.com (2026) - 4,653,212 breached accounts
In August 2026, millions of records allegedly sourced from Chess.com were posted online. The data contained 7.3M rows with 4.6M unique email addresses, along with usernames, names, countries and data relating to users' Chess.com accounts. Analysis of the data suggested it had been obtained by scraping. When loaded into HIBP, 99% of the email addresses had already appeared in previous data breaches
Reference details
- Source category
- Research & news
- Report title
Chess.com (2026) - 4,653,212 breached accounts- First reported
- Sep 13, 2026 13:09 UTC
- Last reported
- Sep 13, 2026 13:09 UTC
- Catalog updated
- Oct 08, 2026 03:46 UTC
- Record ID
03ff404602dfc9fa21579f0bcb5e6cd207a347ca63a99b8cf94e266ad0e60022
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1 sources: 0 stale, 0 needing attention, 0 paused, 1 unverified.
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- src_cbc45cf1e1acfaf7eaCollection status unverifiedLast successful batch: Unverified
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