Russian America

What Happened

In approximately 2017, the website for Russian speakers in America known as Russian America suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 183k unique records including names, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored in both plain text and as MD5 hashes. Russian America was contacted about the breach but did not respond.

Compromised Data

Email addresses
Names
Passwords
Phone numbers

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    182.7 thousand

  • Breach Occurred:

    January 2017

  • Added to HIBP:

    13 Sep 2018

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Enable Two-Factor Authentication

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Check Other Accounts

If you used the same password elsewhere, change those too.

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