Impact & Downstream Threats
This breach carries critical risk due to the nature of exposed data fields and the scale of affected records.
- Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms
- Identity verification bypass using name + date of birth combination
- SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present
- Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
- Doxxing risk from physical address exposure
- Employment-based social engineering using job and employer data
Breach Intelligence
Executive Summary
In April 2018, news broke of a massive data breach impacting the Vietnamese company known as VNG after data was discovered being traded on a popular hacking forum where it was extensively redistributed. The breach dated back to an incident in May of 2015 and included of over 163 million customers. The data in the breach 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. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
About VNG
Vietnamese technology company with gaming, payments, cloud, and internet services.
Data Points Exposed
Dark Web Verification
Status: Confirmed
- Dataset containing approximately 77.4M records identified in breach intelligence sources.
- The data is indexed and searchable across breach notification platforms.
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Frequently Asked Questions
In May 2015, VNG experienced a data breach that exposed approximately 77.4M records containing personal information.
The exposed data includes fields such as date of birth, email address, full name, gender, ip address.
Approximately 77.4M records were affected based on current breach intelligence.
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- A customer of VNG
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