R2 (2017 forum breach)

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Disclosed

January 1, 2017

3372 days ago

Records

1.0M

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Gaming

Description

In early 2017, the forum for the gaming website R2 Games was hacked. R2 had previously appeared on HIBP in 2015 after a prior incident. This one exposed over 1 million unique user accounts and corresponding MD5 password hashes with no salt.

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Exposed Data Types

Exposed Data

PasswordsEmail AddressesUsernames

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