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MacGeneration

Disclosed Mar 3, 20224 years ago101,004 accountsUnverified

In January 2022, the French Apple news website MacGeneration suffered a data breach . The incident exposed over 100k usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted SHA-512 hashes. After discovering the incident, MacGeneration self-submitted data to HIBP.

What is known

People affected101,004 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedMar 3, 2022
HappenedJan 29, 2022
AttackNot stated
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: MacGenerationhaveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the dataMar 3, 2022101,004
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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