10,483
Records Exposed
Aug 2018
Date of Breach
Database,Combolist
Breach Type
Jan 2026
Added to Database
About This Breach
In August 2018, 9minutes, a now defunct French platform aggregating news from multiple sources into a single feed, experienced a data breach involving over 10,000 unique records. The compromised information included email addresses and either plaintext, phpBB hashed, or bcrypt hashed passwords. The data was shared on a popular cybercrime forum.
Compromised Data Types
Country
France
Language
French
Password Storage
Plaintext, MD5(PHPBB3), bcrypt
Category
News
Indexed On
Jan 26, 2026
Breach Type
Database,Combolist
What Should You Do?
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