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Breach occurred 2016-08-11Verifiedepicgames.com
What happened
In August 2016, the Epic Games forum suffered a data breach, allegedly due to a SQL injection vulnerability in vBulletin. The attack resulted in the exposure of 252k accounts including usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Epic Games data breach occurred on August 11, 2016. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on November 7, 2016.
251,661 accounts were affected by the Epic Games data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Epic Games breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Passwords, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Epic Games breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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