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Nextgenupdate Data Breach (2014)

NextGenUpdate

highXposedOrNot
Disclosed

April 1, 2014

4378 days ago

Records

1.2M

Confirmed

Root Cause

Unauthorized Access

Industry

Gaming

Description

NextGenUpdate, a popular online gaming forum, suffered a data breach that resulted in the exposure of user information in 2014. The breach involved unauthorized access to the forum's database, leading to the compromise of approximately 1.2 million user accounts. The exposed data included usernames, email addresses, passwords (stored as MD5 hashes), IP addresses, and other related forum activity information.

Exposed Data Types

Exposed Data

PasswordsIP AddressesUsernamesEmail addresses
NextGenUpdate Data Breach (2014) - 1.2M Records | ExposedMap