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Minefield data breach (2015)

In June 2015, the French Minecraft server known as Minefield was hacked and 188k member records were exposed. The IP.Board forum included email and IP addresses, birth dates and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.

Victim
Minefield
records
188.3K
SectorRetail
CountryFrance

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 2015-06-28, Minefield was affected by a data breach. Approximately 188,343 accounts were exposed. In June 2015, the French Minecraft server known as Minefield was hacked and 188k member records were exposed. The IP.Board forum included email and IP addresses, birth dates and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.

Sources

  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Minefield
  2. minefield.frhttps://minefield.fr

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