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AnimeGame Data Breach

animegame.me
Significant exposure
Verified breach Passwords exposed
Accounts exposed 1,431,378
Breach date 27 Feb 2020
Added to tracker 09 Mar 2020
Data classes 3

What happened

In February 2020, the gaming website AnimeGame suffered a data breach. The incident affected 1.4M subscribers and exposed email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was subsequently shared on a popular hacking forum and was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

Exposed data

Email addresses Passwords Usernames

Recommended actions

  • Change your AnimeGame password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
  • Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
  • Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing AnimeGame โ€” attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
  • Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.
Am I affected? Check whether your email address appears in this breach.
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