Fanlore

fanlore.org

Trustworthiness

Published by the company

accounts: 144,520
Breach happened: 6 August 2026
Added to the register: 19 August 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.

What leaked

Passwords

Whoever has it can do everything you can do in this account — use a card saved on it, change your plan, read whatever you keep there. And if you used it anywhere else, those accounts too.
Do this now
- Change your password on Fanlore
- Change it on every other site where you used the same one Password managers →
- Turn on two-factor authentication wherever it is offered Two-factor authentication →
Email address

The address every one of these scams will arrive at.

Phishing →
Name

Used to make a cold approach look like a conversation already under way.

Social engineering →

What is not listed

Bank details
Card numbers
Identity documents

The record shows what was found in the data. Not listed is not the same as proven untouched.

Source

The company said so itself, which is the strongest evidence that it happened — though companies tend to understate how far a breach reached.

The company itself

Fanlore

See the source →

Verification service

Have I Been Pwned

Under licence CC BY 4.0

Collects leaked files, checks they are genuine, and lets anyone search their own address in them. Run by one security researcher since 2013.

See the source →