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Video Games Plus Data Breach (2012)

Video Games Plus

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Disclosed

January 1, 2012

5199 days ago

Records

21.0K

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Retail

Description

Canada-based Video Games Plus (VGP), a major gaming website that commercializes games and console accessories has been breached after the hacker xdev@b4lc4nh4ck managed to bypass their security protocols. Names, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers and encrypted passwords belonging to 21,000 of their users were leaked online. Apparently, no credit card information has been obtained by the hackers.