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Data breach

Cross Firecfire.mail.ru

12 865 609 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2016-08-08.

Breached2016-08-08Added to HIBP2016-12-28 UTCUpdated by HIBP2016-12-28 UTCAccounts12 865 609Domaincfire.mail.ru
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words

In August 2016, the Russian gaming forum known as Cross Fire (or cfire.mail.ru) was hacked along with a number of other forums on the Russian mail provider, mail.ru. The vBulletin forum contained 12.8 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.

Exposed data as HIBP classifies it

  • Email addresses
  • Passwords
  • Usernames

How HIBP qualifies it

  • HIBP verified that the data came from this service.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

Copied from HIBP 2026-11-05 03:50 UTC