VNG

What Happened

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.

Compromised Data

Dates of birth
Email addresses
Genders
IP addresses
Marital statuses
Names
Occupations
Passwords
Phone numbers
Physical addresses
Usernames

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    24.9 million

  • Breach Occurred:

    May 2015

  • Added to HIBP:

    28 Apr 2018

Recommended Actions

Change Your Password

If you haven't changed your VNG password since 2015, do so immediately.

Enable Two-Factor Authentication

Add an extra layer of security to your account.

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