Listen, I know you are all expecting an update and I'm working on it but this is more important. If you have ever used Wattpad and your account is still up then you need to try and change your email and password. Wattpad was hacked about a week ago and people are still just now finding out about it, myself included.
Hackers have stolen LOTS of incredibly important information such as names, ages, genders, geographical locations, and IP addresses. This information is now being sold on the dark web.
To find out if you have been hacked you need to check the email you have linked to your account and use it here: won't let me post the link so if you go to my Archive of Our Own account I also have this story published WITH this link.)
This will tell you if your email has ever been breached. It will tell you the general date and site it was breached from and what information they got.
If your account hasn't been breached yet, I believe the best course of action would be to change your email and password (change your email to something fake or that you barely use so it has no important info) then delete your account.
If your account has been breached then please don't panic. You need to log into your account and change your email to something fake or something that has no important info attached to it. Then change your password and delete your account. Be warned that for many of us, it's not letting us do this. You just need to keep trying until it works. If you have Twitter then get on there and search Wattpad. This will show you tweets that mention Wattpad and most of them are talking about this. There are some tweets out that explain what to do if your information has been leaked.
My account was one of the accounts that got breached, along with many others. I'm currently trying to solve the issue as best as I can but I'm having a lot of issues with it and I'm doubting if I'll be able to fix it at all. What does that mean for me? I'm not sure.
All in all, please be careful. I don't plan on ever using that site ever again after this, even though I haven't used it hardly at all in the past three years. It's awful that they've failed to not only protect their many UNDERAGE users but they also failed to make them aware that anything was wrong for so long.
With all that's happened in 2020 so far, this was the last thing we needed but it's here and we have to deal with it now. Please be safe everyone.
I'll see you next time, when I will hopefully have this sorted out on my end. Until then,
-Merce