verified2014-01-09
Bitcoin Security Forum Gmail DumpBitcoin Security Forum Gmail Dump breach
forum.btcsec.com · 4,789,599 records compromised
Records
4.79M
Breach date
2014-01-09
Domain
forum.btcsec.com
Data classes
2
Description
In September 2014, a large dump of nearly 5M usernames and passwords was posted to a Russian Bitcoin forum . Whilst commonly reported as 5M "Gmail passwords", the dump also contained 123k yandex.ru addresses. Whilst the origin of the breach remains unclear, the breached credentials were confirmed by multiple source as correct , albeit a number of years old.
Compromised data classes· 2
Email addressesPasswords
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.