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Breach occurred 2017-01-01Verifiedrussianamerica.com
What happened
In approximately 2017, the website for Russian speakers in America known as Russian America suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 183k unique records including names, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored in both plain text and as MD5 hashes. Russian America was contacted about the breach but did not respond.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Russian America data breach occurred on January 1, 2017. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on September 13, 2018.
182,717 accounts were affected by the Russian America data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Russian America breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Russian America breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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