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EpicNPC data breach (2016)

In January 2016, the hacked account reseller EpicNPC suffered a data breach that impacted 409k subscribers. The impacted data included usernames, IP and email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

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EpicNPC
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408.8K
SectorRetail

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 2016-01-02, EpicNPC was affected by a data breach. Approximately 408,795 accounts were exposed. In January 2016, the hacked account reseller EpicNPC suffered a data breach that impacted 409k subscribers. The impacted data included usernames, IP and email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#EpicNPC
  2. epicnpc.comhttps://epicnpc.com

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