4,979,061
Records Exposed
Jul 2013
Date of Breach
Database
Breach Type
Jul 2022
Added to Database
About This Breach
In December 2015, the game modding site Nexus Mods released a statement notifying users that they had been hacked. They subsequently dated the hack as having occurred in July 2013 although there is evidence to suggest the data was being traded months in advance of that. The breach contained usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as a salted hashes.
Compromised Data Types
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Password Storage
plaintext & IPB
Category
Gaming
Indexed On
Jul 25, 2022
Breach Type
Database
What Should You Do?
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Sign Up for Pro- Change your password immediately on NexusMods and any other site where you used the same password. Use a unique, strong password for each account.
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