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Breach occurred 2014-09-01Verifiedpowerbot.org
What happened
In approximately September 2014, the RuneScape bot website Powerbot suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of over half a million unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Powerbot data breach occurred on September 1, 2014. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on July 1, 2017.
503,501 accounts were affected by the Powerbot data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Powerbot breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Powerbot breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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