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Пара Па data breach (2016)

In August 2016, the Russian gaming site known as Пара Па (or parapa.mail.ru) was hacked along with a number of other forums on the Russian mail provider, mail.ru. The vBulletin forum contained 4.9 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.

Victim
Пара Па
records
4.9M
SectorRetail
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, Пара Па was affected by a data breach. Approximately 4,946,850 accounts were exposed. In August 2016, the Russian gaming site known as Пара Па (or parapa.mail.ru) was hacked along with a number of other forums on the Russian mail provider, mail.ru. The vBulletin forum contained 4.9 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#ПараПа
  2. parapa.mail.ruhttps://parapa.mail.ru

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