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CD Projekt RED data breach (2016)

In March 2016, Polish game developer CD Projekt RED suffered a data breach. The hack of their forum led to the exposure of almost 1.9 million accounts along with usernames, email addresses and salted SHA1 passwords.

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CD Projekt RED
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1.9M
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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 2016-03-01, CD Projekt RED was affected by a data breach. Approximately 1,871,373 accounts were exposed. In March 2016, Polish game developer CD Projekt RED suffered a data breach. The hack of their forum led to the exposure of almost 1.9 million accounts along with usernames, email addresses and salted SHA1 passwords.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#CDProjektRED
  2. cdprojektred.comhttps://cdprojektred.com

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