Hot Topic Data Breach
The 2024 Hot Topic-attributed data collection has not been publicly confirmed by the operator.
Exposed Data Types
9- Dates of birth
- Email addresses
- Genders
- Names
- Partial credit card data
- Phone numbers
- Physical addresses
- Purchases
- Salutations
About This Breach
A public breach source reports 56,904,909 account or email records associated with Hot Topic, BoxLunch, and Torrid and the collection-level classes dates of birth, emails, genders, names, partial card data, phones, physical addresses, purchases, and salutations. This is not a count of distinct people, current customers, raw rows, or people who had every field present.
October 19, 2024 is a public breach source and third-party reporting chronology, not an operator-confirmed attack or discovery day. The partial-card class applies to the public breach source-indexed dataset. Claims of encrypted card numbers in an alleged broader dataset should not be added without reconciling dataset versions, while a public breach source's class list also does not prove that no broader variant contained full or encrypted card numbers or other fields. No field should be assumed to co-occur with every email.
No Hot Topic data is locally searchable. This record does not identify anyone as a Hot Topic, BoxLunch, or Torrid customer, purchase or loyalty participant, person of a particular age or gender, or card holder. Brand relationship, purchase history, address, phone, card fragment, field co-occurrence, account compromise, and misuse cannot be inferred. Passwords are not among a public breach source's listed classes for this dataset.
Verification and editorial method
LeakData compares the incident name, date, affected-record count, and exposed data types with accessible sources. Unverified fields are not presented as facts, and records are updated when new evidence becomes available.
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