"In July 2019, the forum for webcomic XKCD suffered a data breach that impacted 562k subscribers. The breached phpBB forum leaked usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored in MD5 phpBB3 format. The data was provided to HIBP by white hat security researcher and data analyst Adam Davies.
Breach date: 1 July 2019 Date added to HIBP: 1 September 2019 Compromised accounts: 561,991 Compromised data: Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames"
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This is actually quite a surprise! I would have thought Randal Monroe (the creator of XKCD) would have been a little more cautious.