Onverse

In January 2016 the virtual world platform Onverse suffered a significant security breach resulting in the exposure of approximately 800000 user accounts. The incident involved an unauthorized intrusion into their database where attackers managed to extract sensitive personal details and security credentials. The data set included user email addresses and physical locations alongside technical identifiers. Most critically the breach contained MD5 salted password hashes which are considered cryptographically weak by modern standards making them susceptible to cracking attempts.