Пара Па Data Breach

What happened

In August 2016, the Russian gaming site known as Пара Па (or parapa.mail.ru) was hacked along with a number of other forums on the Russian mail provider, mail.ru. The vBulletin forum contained 4.9 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Пара Па 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 Пара Па — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.