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Breach occurred 2015-10-19163.com
What happened
In October 2015, the Chinese site known as NetEase (located at 163.com) was reported as having suffered a data breach that impacted hundreds of millions of subscribers. Whilst there is evidence that the data itself is legitimate (multiple HIBP subscribers confirmed a password they use is in the data), due to the difficulty of emphatically verifying the Chinese breach it has been flagged as "unverified". The data in the breach contains email addresses and plain text passwords. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The NetEase data breach occurred on October 19, 2015. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on October 9, 2016.
234,842,089 accounts were affected by the NetEase data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The NetEase breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Passwords.
Have I Been Pwned has not independently verified the NetEase breach. Unverified breaches can still be genuine — verification just means HIBP hasn't been able to confirm the data's authenticity directly, often because the source is a smaller or less-publicized incident.
Use KazaSec's free Email Breach Checker (/tools/breach-check) to check whether a specific email address has surfaced in the NetEase breach, or any other known breach — the tool never stores what you search.
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