Avast data breach (2014)

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 2014-05-26, Avast was affected by a data breach. Approximately 422,959 accounts were exposed. In May 2014, the Avast anti-virus forum was hacked and 423k member records were exposed. The Simple Machines Based forum included usernames, emails and password hashes.

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Data breachResolvedNovember 25, 2014

Acne.org data breach (2014)

In November 2014, the acne website acne.org suffered a data breach that exposed over 430k forum members' accounts. The data was being actively traded on underground forums and included email addresses, birth dates and passwords.

Victim: Acne.org
Records: 432.9K

Data breachResolvedOctober 18, 2014

ILikeCheats data breach (2014)

In October 2014, the game cheats website known as ILikeCheats suffered a data breach that exposed 189k accounts. The vBulletin based forum leaked usernames, IP and email addresses and weak MD5 hashes of passwords. The data was provided with support from dehashed.com.

Victim: ILikeCheats
Records: 188.8K

Data breachResolvedOctober 1, 2014

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.

Victim: 9Lives
Records: 109.5K

Data breachResolvedSeptember 10, 2014

mail.ru Dump data breach (2014)

In September 2014, several large dumps of user accounts appeared on the Russian Bitcoin Security Forum including one with nearly 5M email addresses and passwords, predominantly on the mail.ru domain.

Victim: mail.ru Dump
Records: 16.6M

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Acne.org data breach (2014)

ILikeCheats data breach (2014)

9Lives data breach (2014)

mail.ru Dump data breach (2014)