Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
24.9M
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
11
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2015
VNG

Breach History

VNG
May 2015Critical
24.9M
Records exposed
11
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

In April 2018, news broke of a massive data breach impacting the Vietnamese company known as VNG after data was discovered being traded on a popular hacking forum where it was extensively redistributed. The breach dated back to an incident in May of 2015 and included of over 163 million customers. The data in the breach contained a wide range of personal attributes including usernames, birth dates, genders and home addresses along with unsalted MD5 hashes and 25 million unique email addresses. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

Exposed Data Types
Dates of birthEmail addressesGendersIP addressesMarital statusesNamesOccupationsPasswordsPhone numbersPhysical addressesUsernames
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Dates of birthMedium risk
Email addressesLow risk
GendersLow risk
IP addressesMedium risk
Marital statusesLow risk
NamesLow risk
OccupationsLow risk
PasswordsHigh risk
Phone numbersMedium risk
Physical addressesMedium risk
UsernamesLow risk