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high severity January 21, 2018 · 1 min read

Club Penguin Rewritten (January 2018) Data Breach (2018)

If you are a customer of Club Penguin Rewritten (January 2018), here’s what’s now in circulation.

In January 2018, the children's gaming site Club Penguin Rewritten (CPRewritten) suffered a data breach (note: CPRewritten is an independent recreation of Disney's Club Penguin game). The incident exposed almost 1.7 million unique email addresses alongside IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. When contacted, CPRewritten advised they were aware of the breach and had "contacted affected users".

Club Penguin Rewritten (January 2018) Data Breach (2018)

What the free scan actually returns

Sample resultyou@email.comIllustrative — not a real person

Found on people-search siteswe remove these

These listings are live, public, and legal to remove — and removing them is what we do.

value redacted in this sampleage, relatives, address historySpokeo
value redacted in this samplephone, household, property recordsBeenVerified
value redacted in this sample582 companies checked

Found in breach recordsverifiedreported — unverified

Each record is labeled: confirmed breach data, or an attacker’s claim no one has verified.

verifiedvalue redacted in this samplepassword + phone · 2024telecom breach
unverifiedvalue redacted in this sampleclaimed in ransomware listing · 2026leak-site claim

Leaked data cannot be deleted from the internet — anyone claiming otherwise is lying. Broker listings can be removed. We do the second, and show you exactly what to fix from the first.

Were you a Club Penguin Rewritten (January 2018) customer?
Club Penguin Rewritten (January 2018) is one listing. Your email is probably in others.
1.7M accounts were exposed here. Check whether yours is one — and find every other leak tied to the same address, in about 15 seconds. No account, no card.

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Report details & sourcing

Severity High contact details only, none of them permanent
Disclosed January 21, 2018
Last reviewed July 22, 2026
Affected 1.7M
Data exposed Email addressesIP addressesPasswordsUsernames
By GalaxyWarden Threat Research · Editorial & sourcing standards
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GalaxyWarden is a breach-monitoring service and news aggregator. We do not exfiltrate, host, purchase, or redistribute stolen data. Breach information is compiled from publicly accessible sources and threat-intelligence platforms, and is reported as claims attributed to their source. We promptly correct or remove material shown to be inaccurate — see our content & takedown policy or write to support@galaxywarden.com.
Sources: Have I Been Pwned
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