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Lifeboat

Disclosed Apr 25, 201610 years ago7,089,395 accountsUnverified

In January 2016, the Minecraft community known as Lifeboat was hacked and more than 7 million accounts leaked . Lifeboat knew of the incident for three months before the breach was made public but elected not to advise customers. The leaked data included usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as straight MD5 hashes.

What is known

People affected7,089,395 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedApr 25, 2016
HappenedJan 1, 2016
AttackHacking
Data exposedEmails, Passwords
SectorTech
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
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Sources

Source
Have I Been Pwned: Lifeboathaveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the dataApr 25, 20167,089,395
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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