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9Lives data breach (2014)

In October 2014, the (now defunct) Belgian gaming news forum 9Lives suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 109k unique email addresses along with usernames and salted MD5 password hashes.

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9Lives
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109.5K
SectorMedia
CountryBelgium

Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2014-10-01, 9Lives was affected by a data breach. Approximately 109,515 accounts were exposed. In October 2014, the (now defunct) Belgian gaming news forum 9Lives suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 109k unique email addresses along with usernames and salted MD5 password hashes.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#9Lives
  2. 9lives.behttps://9lives.be

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