CrossFire Data Breach (2016)

Cross Fire, in August 2016, a Russian gaming forum hosted on cfire.mail.ru, was compromised in a data breach. This incident was part of a broader attack affecting several forums associated with the Russian mail provider, mail.ru. The breach on the vBulletin forum led to the exposure of 12.8 million accounts, revealing usernames, email addresses, and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.