HackingCustomer Data InvolvedCREDENTIALSIDENTITY_BASICLOCATIONPIILowContained
WP Technology Inc.
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Full breach record for WP Technology Inc. →WP Technology Inc. d/b/a Wattpad notified consumers of an attack identified on May 29, 2015. The attacker potentially accessed email addresses, Wattpad passwords (encrypted), Tumblr usernames and passwords (unencrypted), last login IPs, and other user profile information. The attack was blocked within hours. No stories read or created were accessed. Users were advised to change passwords.
California clockDiscovered May 29, 2015 → Notified Aug 6, 201569d ✗ CA 60-day late10 weeks discovery → filing
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-57318
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Aug 6, 2015
- Raw hash
- 555a1a5634560eb9cc87b11084d43190aa2fb390dbd48662851d5da884078607
Reporting entity
- Name
- WP Technology Inc.norm: wp technology
- Domain
- wattpad.com
Victim entity
- Name
- WP Technology Inc.norm: wp technology
- Domain
- wattpad.com
Incident
- Discovered
- May 29, 2015
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Aug 6, 2015
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- CREDENTIALSIDENTITY_BASICLOCATIONPII
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 10 weeks(69 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day late · 69d
- Discovery-date grounding
- letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: May 29, 2015→ Notified: Aug 6, 201569d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.