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War Inc. data breach (2012)

In mid-2012, the real-time strategy game War Inc. suffered a data breach. The attack resulted in the exposure of over 1 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.

Victim
War Inc.
records
1.0M
SectorTechnology

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 2012-07-04, War Inc. was affected by a data breach. Approximately 1,020,136 accounts were exposed. In mid-2012, the real-time strategy game War Inc. suffered a data breach. The attack resulted in the exposure of over 1 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#WarInc.
  2. thewarinc.comhttps://thewarinc.com

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