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Breach occurred 2016-08-08Verifiedcfire.mail.ru
What happened
In August 2016, the Russian gaming forum known as Cross Fire (or cfire.mail.ru) was hacked along with a number of other forums on the Russian mail provider, mail.ru. The vBulletin forum contained 12.8 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Cross Fire data breach occurred on August 8, 2016. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on December 28, 2016.
12,865,609 accounts were affected by the Cross Fire data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Cross Fire breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Passwords, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Cross Fire breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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