19,129,431
Records Exposed
Oct 2015
Date of Breach
Database
Breach Type
Jul 2022
Added to Database
About This Breach
In late 2015, the gaming website R2Games was hacked and more than 2.1M personal records disclosed. The vBulletin forum included IP addresses and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked. A further 11M accounts were added to Have I been pwned in March 2016 and another 9M in July 2016 bringing the total to over 22M.
Compromised Data Types
Country
Hong Kong
Language
English
Password Storage
vB
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 R2Games and any other site where you used the same password. Use a unique, strong password for each account.
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