In 2014, the Chinese Android app store HIAPK allegedly suffered a data breach. Reports suggest that the incident impacted over 13.8 million users. The compromised data reportedly includes usernames, email addresses, and salted MD5 password hashes.
In August 2024, Tencent experienced a major data breach that exposed the personal data of 1.4 billion user accounts. This breach was orchestrated by a hacker known as "Fenice," and the compromised data included sensitive information such as email addresses, phone numbers, and QQ IDs.
In early 2015, a spam list titled "SC Daily Phone" surfaced, containing nearly 33 million records. Among the compromised information were names, physical and IP addresses, genders, birth dates, and phone numbers.
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Verify Your Email AddressIn July 2007, the multiplayer game portal gPotato suffered a data breach that reportedly exposed over 2 million user accounts. The platform later merged into the Webzen portal, where the original accounts remain active. Among the compromised data were usernames, email addresses, IP addresses, MD5-hashed passwords, and personal attributes such as gender, birth dates, physical addresses, and security questions and answers stored in plain text.
In 2020, the social networking platform USA.Life, which describes itself as a free-speech alternative to Facebook, allegedly experienced a data breach. The incident reportedly exposed a database containing information on approximately 144,637 users. Some of the leaked data includes usernames, email addresses, names, genders, geographic locations, IP addresses, and passwords hashed using a mix of SHA-1 and bcrypt, suggesting a possible transition between hashing algorithms over time.
Sometime in 2014, the runescape botting/scripts webforum Villavu (Aka SRL Resource Library) suffered a data breach that impacted 137k members. The breach included Usernames, Email addresses, IP Addresses and Passwords stored as vBulletin hashes.
In May 2016, the forum for the French game developer Amplitude Studios suffered a data breach that impacted 143k users. The attack led to the exposure of data including Usernames, Email addresses, IP Addresses, Dates of Birth and Passwords stored as vBulletin hashes.
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