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Breach occurred 2014-09-07Verifiedforum.btcsec.com
What happened
In September 2014, news broke of a massive leak of accounts from Yandex, the Russian search engine giants who also provides email services. The purported million "breached" accounts were disclosed at the same time as nearly 5M mail.ru accounts with both companies claiming the credentials were acquired via phishing scams rather than being obtained as a result of direct attacks against their services.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Yandex Dump data breach occurred on September 7, 2014. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on September 12, 2014.
1,186,564 accounts were affected by the Yandex Dump data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Yandex Dump breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Passwords.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Yandex Dump breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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