Data breach
Epic Gamesepicgames.com
251 661 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2016-08-11.
Breached2016-08-11Added to HIBP2016-11-07 UTCUpdated by HIBP2016-11-07 UTCAccounts251 661Domainepicgames.com
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
In August 2016, the Epic Games forum suffered a data breach, allegedly due to a SQL injection vulnerability in vBulletin. The attack resulted in the exposure of 252k accounts including usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.
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)
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