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Breach occurred 2014-10-01Verified9lives.be
What happened
In October 2014, the (now defunct) Belgian gaming news forum 9Lives suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 109k unique email addresses along with usernames and salted MD5 password hashes.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The 9Lives data breach occurred on October 1, 2014. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on February 2, 2025.
109,515 accounts were affected by the 9Lives data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The 9Lives breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Passwords, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the 9Lives breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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