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mail.ru Dump data breach16.6M accounts compromised on 2014-09-10
mail.ru Dump (mail.ru) was the source of a data breach dated 2014-09-10, exposing 16,630,988 accounts. The details below are mirrored from Have I Been Pwned and reflect the source's account of the incident at the time of publication.
Incident Report
| Target Organization | mail.ru Dump |
|---|---|
| Source Name | MailRu |
| Domain | mail.ru |
| Breach Date | 2014-09-10 |
| Added to HIBP | 2014-09-12 |
| Last Modified | 2018-01-09 |
| Accounts Compromised | 16,630,988(16.6M) |
| Data Exposed | Email addressesPasswords |
| Status | Unverified |
Description
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 against mail.ru, the credentials were confirmed by many as legitimate for other services they had subscribed to. Further data allegedly valid for mail.ru and containing email addresses and plain text passwords was added in January 2018 bringing to total to more than 16M records. The incident was also then flagged as "unverified", a concept that was introduced after the initial data load in 2014.
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