25,080,873
Records Exposed
May 2015
Date of Breach
Database
Breach Type
Jul 2024
Added to Database
About This Breach
In April 2018, it was revealed that the Vietnamese company VNG had suffered a massive data breach. The breach, which occurred in May 2015, involved over 163 million customer records and was discovered being traded on a popular hacking forum, where it was widely redistributed. The compromised data included usernames, birth dates, genders, home addresses, unsalted MD5 hashes, and 25 million unique email addresses.
Compromised Data Types
Country
United States
Language
English
Password Storage
MD5
Category
Online tool
Indexed On
Jul 22, 2024
Breach Type
Database
What Should You Do?
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Sign Up for Pro- Change your password immediately on VNG and any other site where you used the same password. Use a unique, strong password for each account.
- Watch for phishing emails targeting your inbox. Attackers may use your exposed email address to send convincing scam messages.
- Be alert to smishing attacks (SMS phishing). Scammers may text you pretending to be banks or service providers.
- Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on all important accounts to add an extra layer of security.
- Use a password manager to generate and store unique, strong passwords for every account.
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