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Breach occurred 2022-09-03Verifiedapk.tw
What happened
In September 2022, the Taiwanese Android forum APK.TW suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 2.5M unique email addresses along with IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 password hashes.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The APK.TW data breach occurred on September 3, 2022. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on March 9, 2024.
2,451,197 accounts were affected by the APK.TW data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The APK.TW breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the APK.TW breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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