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Breach occurred 2022-01-29Verifiedmacg.co
What happened
In January 2022, the French Apple news website MacGeneration suffered a data breach. The incident exposed over 100k usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted SHA-512 hashes. After discovering the incident, MacGeneration self-submitted data to HIBP.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The MacGeneration data breach occurred on January 29, 2022. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on March 3, 2022.
101,004 accounts were affected by the MacGeneration data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The MacGeneration breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Passwords, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the MacGeneration breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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