y'all my sister just sent me this screenshot of a tweet on twitter and it says something about wattpad getting hacked and having writers' information leaked and sold onto the dark web?
i don't know if this is a real thing or not but i just wanted to let y'all know since i'm the kinda person who is easily convinced about things and it's kinda scaring me right now. if you guys know anything about it can y'all let me know in the comments because i'm really starting to get stressed about it :(
(UPDATE)
!big thanks to @mOoN_ChEeSeCakE for helping me find information on this and informing me about what to do to help keep myself and others safe!
here is what i found :
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if u can't view the images, let me just sum up what the images say. (i strongly suggest that if u can see the images to please read through it and share them wherever you can)
basically, a data breach had been detected on Wattpad, and that data breach consisted of our personal information such as our email addresses, passwords, usernames and such.
now it is important to not stress about it or panic since it overall isn't good on our mental health and can cause us even more stress about the problem at hand.
for now, we should begin changing our account passwords to more secure ones and share this information so that (hopefully) we can help some fellow writers and readers out.
———————————————————————— besides that, i hope you guys have a good rest of your day/night and are doing okay. if you ever wanna talk to me about quite literally anything, i don't mind! just give me a dm and i'm pretty sure i'll be able to respond back :) ily all and pls stay safe <3
