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Disclosed incidenthibp-crunchyroll

Crunchyroll breach: 1,195,684 accounts exposed

In March 2026, the anime streaming service Crunchyroll suffered a data breach alleged to have impacted 6.8M users .

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What happened

In March 2026, the anime streaming service Crunchyroll suffered a data breach alleged to have impacted 6.8M users . The exposed data is reported to have originated from the company's Zendesk support system where "name, login name, email address, IP address, general geographic location and the contents of the support tickets" were exposed. A subset of 1.2M email addresses from an alleged 2M record dataset being sold was later provided to HIBP.

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    Have I Been Pwned: Crunchyroll (opens a new tab)

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APA

KEVWire. (2026, April 27). Crunchyroll breach: 1,195,684 accounts exposed. https://kevwire.com/record/hibp-crunchyroll

MLA

"Crunchyroll breach: 1,195,684 accounts exposed." KEVWire, 27 Apr. 2026, kevwire.com/record/hibp-crunchyroll.

Chicago

KEVWire. "Crunchyroll breach: 1,195,684 accounts exposed." Last modified April 27, 2026. https://kevwire.com/record/hibp-crunchyroll.

Evidence summary (plain text)

Crunchyroll breach: 1,195,684 accounts exposed (Apr 4, 2026).
In March 2026, the anime streaming service Crunchyroll suffered a data breach alleged to have impacted 6.8M users . The exposed data is reported to have originated from the company's Zendesk support system where "name, login name, email address, IP address, general geographic location and the contents of the support tickets" were exposed. A subset of 1.2M email addresses from an alleged 2M record dataset being sold was later provided to HIBP.
Sources:
Have I Been Pwned: Crunchyroll: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Crunchyroll
Have I Been Pwned breach API: https://haveibeenpwned.com/api/v3/breaches
Record ID: hibp-crunchyroll.
Record origin: Ingested record.
AI evidence: Not assessed.
About this data

This record was ingested from a data source. Retrieved: Oct 27, 2026, 01:25 UTC. Ingestion is not an independent editorial investigation.

Verified by Have I Been Pwned. Breach date: 2026-03-12; loaded 2026-04-04. Exposed data: Email addresses. Counts are accounts in the loaded data, not necessarily distinct people.

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