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Cross Fire data breach (2016)

In August 2016, the Russian gaming forum known as Cross Fire (or cfire.mail.ru) was hacked along with a number of other forums on the Russian mail provider, mail.ru. The vBulletin forum contained 12.8 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.

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Cross Fire
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12.9M
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CountryRussia

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 2016-08-08, Cross Fire was affected by a data breach. Approximately 12,865,609 accounts were exposed. In August 2016, the Russian gaming forum known as Cross Fire (or cfire.mail.ru) was hacked along with a number of other forums on the Russian mail provider, mail.ru. The vBulletin forum contained 12.8 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#CrossFire
  2. cfire.mail.ruhttps://cfire.mail.ru

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