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Public breachBreachXposedOrNot· 1 Aug 2016

CrossFire

Domain: cfire.mail.ru

What happened

Cross Fire, in August 2016, a Russian gaming forum hosted on cfire.mail.ru, was compromised in a data breach. This incident was part of a broader attack affecting several forums associated with the Russian mail provider, mail.ru. The breach on the vBulletin forum led to the exposure of 12.8 million accounts, revealing usernames, email addresses, and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.

Breach facts

Records exposed
12,868,341
Sensitive
No
Industry
Entertainment
Data exposed
UsernamesPasswordsEmail addresses

This page summarises publicly reported breach metadata for awareness. For account recovery or incident response, use the official guidance from the affected service.

Breach data provided by XposedOrNot.