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Breach occurred 2016-07-01Verifiedkaneva.com
What happened
In July 2016, now defunct website Kaneva, the service to "build and explore virtual worlds", suffered a data breach that exposed 3.9M user records. The data included email addresses, usernames, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Kaneva data breach occurred on July 1, 2016. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on December 9, 2023.
3,901,179 accounts were affected by the Kaneva data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Kaneva breach exposed the following data types: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Passwords, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Kaneva breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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