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Breach occurred 2016-08-19Verifiedppcgeeks.com
What happened
In August 2016, the pocket PC fan site forum PPCGeeks suffered a data breach that exposed over 490k records. The breach of the vBulletin forum exposed email and IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The PPCGeeks data breach occurred on August 19, 2016. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on July 18, 2022.
492,518 accounts were affected by the PPCGeeks data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The PPCGeeks breach exposed the following data types: Dates of birth, Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the PPCGeeks breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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