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medium severity August 11, 2016 · 252K affected

Epic Games Data Breach (2016)

In August 2016, the Epic Games forum suffered a data breach, allegedly due to a SQL injection vulnerability in vBulletin. The attack resulted in the exposure of 252k accounts including usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.

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Severity Medium
Disclosed August 11, 2016
Affected 252K
Data exposed Email addressesPasswordsUsernames
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