What is the authoritative source for Avast?

Avast (Avast) is catalogued in Have I Been Pwned and curated for EU compliance use cases by SQUR.

How many accounts did the Avast breach affect?

The Avast breach (2014-05-26) exposed 422,959 accounts, per Have I Been Pwned.

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AvastAvast breach

avast.com · 422,959 records compromised

Records

423K

Breach date

2014-05-26

Domain

avast.com

Data classes

Description

In May 2014, the Avast anti-virus forum was hacked and 423k member records were exposed. The Simple Machines Based forum included usernames, emails and password hashes.

Compromised data classes· 3

Email addressesPasswordsUsernames

Related by meaning· 6

Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.

Sourced from Have I Been Pwned. Aggregate metadata only — no PII. Curated by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.