VNG Corporation

The Vietnamese company known as VNG suffered massive data in April 2018 which impacted over 163 million customers.

The data was discovered after it was posted on a popular hacking forum and was extensively redistributed.

The exposed breach data contained a wide range of personal attributes including usernames, birth dates, genders and home addresses along with unsalted MD5 hashes and 25 million unique email addresses.

Source: https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#NotAcxiom

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/vng-corporation

"id": "vng105531222",
"linkid": "vng-corporation",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "04/2018",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"

{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': '163 million',
                        'location': 'Vietnam',
                        'name': 'VNG',
                        'type': 'Company'}],
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': '163 million',
                 'personally_identifiable_information': ['usernames',
                                                         'birth dates',
                                                         'genders',
                                                         'home addresses',
                                                         'email addresses'],
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['usernames',
                                              'birth dates',
                                              'genders',
                                              'home addresses',
                                              'unsalted MD5 hashes',
                                              '25 million unique email '
                                              'addresses']},
 'date_detected': 'April 2018',
 'description': 'The Vietnamese company known as VNG suffered massive data in '
                'April 2018 which impacted over 163 million customers. The '
                'data was discovered after it was posted on a popular hacking '
                'forum and was extensively redistributed. The exposed breach '
                'data contained a wide range of personal attributes including '
                'usernames, birth dates, genders and home addresses along with '
                'unsalted MD5 hashes and 25 million unique email addresses.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['usernames',
                                 'birth dates',
                                 'genders',
                                 'home addresses',
                                 'unsalted MD5 hashes',
                                 '25 million unique email addresses']},
 'title': 'VNG Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}