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Nexus Mods

Disclosed Jan 17, 20165,915,013 accountsUnverified

In December 2015, the game modding site Nexus Mods released a statement notifying users that they had been hacked . They subsequently dated the hack as having occurred in July 2013 although there is evidence to suggest the data was being traded months in advance of that. The breach contained usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as a salted hashes.

What is known

People affected5,915,013 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedJan 17, 2016
HappenedJul 22, 2013
AttackHacking
Data exposedEmailsPasswords
SectorTech
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
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Added2026-09-25
First recordedby backfillSource

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

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