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JoyGames data breach (2019)

In December 2019, the forum for the JoyGames website suffered a data breach that exposed 4.5M unique email addresses. The impacted data also included usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.

Victim
JoyGames
records
4.5M
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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 2019-12-14, JoyGames was affected by a data breach. Approximately 4,461,787 accounts were exposed. In December 2019, the forum for the JoyGames website suffered a data breach that exposed 4.5M unique email addresses. The impacted data also included usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.

Sources

  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#JoyGames
  2. joygames.mehttps://joygames.me

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