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Fanlore breach: 144,520 accounts exposed

In August 2026, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) identified unauthorised access to the Fanlore wiki it operates . The breach resulted in the exposure of 145k unique email addresses along with usernames and passwords stored as either MD5 or PBKDF2 hashes.

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What to do

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What happened

In August 2026, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) identified unauthorised access to the Fanlore wiki it operates . The breach resulted in the exposure of 145k unique email addresses along with usernames and passwords stored as either MD5 or PBKDF2 hashes. OTW self-submitted the exposed data to HIBP.

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Sources

  1. Primary source

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

    Verified breach loaded into Have I Been Pwned: account count, exposed data types, and dates.

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  2. Primary source

    Fanlore disclosure (opens a new tab)

    The organization's own breach disclosure, as linked by Have I Been Pwned.

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    Have I Been Pwned breach API (opens a new tab)

    The breach list that supplied this entry.

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APA

KEVWire. (2026, August 19). Fanlore breach: 144,520 accounts exposed. https://kevwire.com/record/hibp-fanlore

MLA

"Fanlore breach: 144,520 accounts exposed." KEVWire, 19 Aug. 2026, kevwire.com/record/hibp-fanlore.

Chicago

KEVWire. "Fanlore breach: 144,520 accounts exposed." Last modified August 19, 2026. https://kevwire.com/record/hibp-fanlore.

Evidence summary (plain text)

Fanlore breach: 144,520 accounts exposed (Aug 19, 2026).
In August 2026, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) identified unauthorised access to the Fanlore wiki it operates . The breach resulted in the exposure of 145k unique email addresses along with usernames and passwords stored as either MD5 or PBKDF2 hashes. OTW self-submitted the exposed data to HIBP.
Sources:
Have I Been Pwned: Fanlore: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Fanlore
Fanlore disclosure: https://www.transformativeworks.org/fanlore-security-incident/
Have I Been Pwned breach API: https://haveibeenpwned.com/api/v3/breaches
Record ID: hibp-fanlore.
Record origin: Ingested record.
AI evidence: Not assessed.
About this data

This record was ingested from a data source. Retrieved: Oct 26, 2026, 21:25 UTC. Ingestion is not an independent editorial investigation.

Verified by Have I Been Pwned. Breach date: 2026-08-06; loaded 2026-08-19. Exposed data: Email addresses, Names, Passwords, Usernames. Counts are accounts in the loaded data, not necessarily distinct people.

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