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Breach occurred 2013-08-01VerifiedOwnedCore.com
What happened
In approximately August 2013, the World of Warcraft exploits forum known as OwnedCore was hacked and more than 880k accounts were exposed. The vBulletin forum included IP addresses and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The OwnedCore data breach occurred on August 1, 2013. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on February 6, 2016.
880,331 accounts were affected by the OwnedCore data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The OwnedCore breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the OwnedCore breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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