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AnimeGame data breach (2020)

In February 2020, the gaming website AnimeGame suffered a data breach. The incident affected 1.4M subscribers and exposed email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was subsequently shared on a popular hacking forum and was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

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AnimeGame
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1.4M
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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 2020-02-27, AnimeGame was affected by a data breach. Approximately 1,431,378 accounts were exposed. In February 2020, the gaming website AnimeGame suffered a data breach. The incident affected 1.4M subscribers and exposed email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was subsequently shared on a popular hacking forum and was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#AnimeGame
  2. animegame.mehttps://animegame.me

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