3,766,337
Records Exposed
Sep 2014
Date of Breach
Database
Breach Type
Jul 2022
Added to Database
About This Breach
In September 2014, several large dumps of user accounts appeared on the Russian Bitcoin Security Forum including one with nearly 5M email addresses and passwords, predominantly on the mail.ru domain. Whilst unlikely to be the result of a direct attack again mail.ru, the credentials were confirmed by many as legitimate for other services they had subscribed to.
Compromised Data Types
Country
Russia
Language
Russian
Password Storage
plaintext
Category
Email Provider
Indexed On
Jul 25, 2022
Breach Type
Database
What Should You Do?
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