MacGeneration

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.

Compromised Data

Email addresses
Passwords
Usernames

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    101 thousand

  • Breach Occurred:

    January 2022

  • Added to HIBP:

    3 Mar 2022

Recommended Actions

Change Your Password

If you haven't changed your MacGeneration password since 2022, do so immediately.

Enable Two-Factor Authentication

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