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Breach occurred 2012-08-01xiaomi.cn
What happened
In August 2012, the Xiaomi user forum website suffered a data breach. In all, 7 million email addresses appeared in the breach although a significant portion of them were numeric aliases on the bbs_ml_as_uid.xiaomi.com domain. Usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes were also exposed. The data was provided with support from dehashed.com. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Xiaomi data breach occurred on August 1, 2012. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on July 21, 2019.
7,088,010 accounts were affected by the Xiaomi data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Xiaomi breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames.
Have I Been Pwned has not independently verified the Xiaomi breach. Unverified breaches can still be genuine — verification just means HIBP hasn't been able to confirm the data's authenticity directly, often because the source is a smaller or less-publicized incident.
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