A Scribd customer reports receiving a security-incident notice on October 26, 2026, from Epiq on behalf of Scribd, Inc., which owns Scribd, SlideShare, Everand, and Fable. The company says an unauthorized third party may have accessed user information held in one of its systems. Potentially exposed data includes email addresses, the last four digits of payment cards, card issuer and expiration date, country, and payment history; full card details were not included. Scribd says it has found no evidence that the information was misused.
Scribd says it secured the affected system, stopped the unauthorized access, notified law enforcement and relevant data-protection authorities, and hired an outside cybersecurity firm to improve access controls and monitoring. The notice urges recipients to watch for phishing messages impersonating its services and warns that the company will not request passwords or other sensitive information by email or text. It advises people not to click suspicious links, but instead to visit the services’ websites directly or report messages through the Help Center. Questions can be directed to a dedicated phone line, +1-877-361-9887, open weekdays from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Central European Time.
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