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\nNeopets has suffered a serious data breach, resulting in personal information such as email addresses and passwords from over 69m accounts being leaked.\n<\/p>\n

\nUsers are now being urged to change their password for Neopets and any sites that use their Neopets password.\n<\/p>\n

\nOn Wednesday, community site Jellyneo revealed that Neopets is actively being hacked. <\/p>\n

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Neopets has suffered a serious data breach, resulting in personal information such as email addresses and passwords from over 69m accounts being leaked. Users are now being urged to change their password for Neopets and any sites that use their Neopets password. On Wednesday, community site Jellyneo revealed that Neopets is actively being hacked. 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