ShellCodeX Breach Report
MacGeneration Data Breach
macg.co
Verified breach
Passwords exposed
Accounts exposed
101,004
Breach date
29 Jan 2022
Added to tracker
03 Mar 2022
Data classes
3
What happened
In January 2022, the French Apple news website MacGeneration suffered a data breach. The incident exposed over 100k usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted SHA-512 hashes. After discovering the incident, MacGeneration self-submitted data to HIBP.
Exposed data
Email addresses
Passwords
Usernames
Recommended actions
- Change your MacGeneration 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 MacGeneration — 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.
Check on HIBP