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MacGeneration data breach (2022)

In January 2022, the French Apple news website MacGeneration suffered a data breach. The incident exposed over 100k usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted SHA-512 hashes. After discovering the incident, MacGeneration self-submitted data to HIBP.

Victim
MacGeneration
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101.0K
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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 2022-01-29, MacGeneration was affected by a data breach. Approximately 101,004 accounts were exposed. In January 2022, the French Apple news website MacGeneration suffered a data breach. The incident exposed over 100k usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted SHA-512 hashes. After discovering the incident, MacGeneration self-submitted data to HIBP.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#MacGeneration
  2. macg.cohttps://macg.co

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