Cross Fire (aug 8, 2016 – jan 1, 0)

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In August 2016, <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/over-25-million-accounts-stolen-after-mail-ru-forums-raided-by-hackers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Russian gaming forum known as Cross Fire (or cfire.mail.ru) was hacked</a> along with a number of other forums on the Russian mail provider, mail.ru. The vBulletin forum contained 12.8 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.

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