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Breach occurred 2015-05-19Verifiedzing.vn
What happened
In April 2018, news broke of a massive data breach impacting the Vietnamese company known as VNG after data was discovered being traded on a popular hacking forum where it was extensively redistributed. The breach dated back to an incident in May of 2015 and included of over 163 million customers. The data in the breach contained a wide range of personal attributes including usernames, birth dates, genders and home addresses along with unsalted MD5 hashes and 25 million unique email addresses. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The VNG data breach occurred on May 19, 2015. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on April 28, 2018.
24,853,850 accounts were affected by the VNG data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The VNG breach exposed the following data types: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, IP addresses, Marital statuses, Names, Occupations, Passwords, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the VNG breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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