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Epic Games

Disclosed Nov 7, 20169 years ago251,661 accountsUnverified

In August 2016, the Epic Games forum suffered a data breach , allegedly due to a SQL injection vulnerability in vBulletin. The attack resulted in the exposure of 252k accounts including usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.

What is known

People affected251,661 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedNov 7, 2016
HappenedAug 11, 2016
AttackNot stated
Data exposedEmails, Passwords
SectorGaming
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
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Sources

Source
Have I Been Pwned: Epic Gameshaveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the dataNov 7, 2016251,661
History of this record
  • 2026-09-25 · added · backfill source

First seen 2026-09-25 (Have I Been Pwned). Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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