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Breach notice filed by Hot Topic, Inc. (March 2024)

Organization named: Hot Topic, Inc. Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory

What the sources say

Washington Attorney General data breach notifications Primary notice

Posted on the Washington Attorney General data breach notifications with a submission date of March 28, 2024.

Organization as reported
Hot Topic, Inc.
Information types as reported
Name; Username and Password/Security Question Answers; Email Address and Password/Security Question Answers; Other
Incident dates as reported
Nov. 18, 2023
Submission date
March 28, 2024
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-19 04:56 UTC (revision 25678, page:11:row:37)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

The listing records a filing with the agency; it is not a finding by the agency.

Washington data breach notifications dataset (data.wa.gov sb4j-ca4h) Duplicate filing

Posted on the Washington data breach notifications dataset with a submission date of March 28, 2024.

Organization as reported
Hot Topic, Inc., CA
Entity type as reported
Business
Category as reported
Unauthorized Access
Incident dates as reported
Nov. 18, 2023 to Nov. 25, 2023
Discovery date as reported
Nov. 18, 2023
Submission date
March 28, 2024
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-11-01 20:03 UTC (revision 63448, row:1164)
Extraction
Parsed from a document; extraction confidence 0.85
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

The listing records a filing with the agency; it is not a finding by the agency.

Figures, per source

  • 3,655 individuals affected (residents of the reporting state), according to the Washington Attorney General data breach notifications, source date March 28, 2024, revision observed 2026-10-19.
  • 3,655 individuals affected (residents of the reporting state), according to the Washington data breach notifications dataset, source date March 28, 2024, revision observed 2026-11-01.

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Timeline

Source dates are the dates the sources give. Observation dates are when BreachRecords recorded each revision.

  • Submission date (Washington Attorney General data breach notifications)
  • Submission date (Washington data breach notifications dataset)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 25678)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 63448)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • Hot Topic, Inc. Named as the filer Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory Linked 2026-11-04, method manual.

Archived evidence

  • 264d45f73831ec8fc298837002b836f792a7cfd7f3d6b4d2128484a23223c042
    text/csv, 453,656 bytes, retrieved from Washington data breach notifications dataset, 2026-11-01 20:03 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page
  • 7e1fd84818bbcc7ad94ef36fefc2a1913d6c890b16fe54f66105c89c21f3c58c
    text/html, 155,679 bytes, retrieved from Washington Attorney General data breach notifications, 2026-10-19 04:56 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

Records reflect source filings as of the dates shown. BreachRecords is not a regulator.

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