Benchmark data breach: 93K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2023-01-01
In November 2019, the Serbian technology news website Benchmark suffered a breach of its forum that exposed 93k customer records. The breach exposed IP and email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. A forum administrator subsequently advised that the breach was due to the forum previously running on an outdated vBulletin instance. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Nov 1, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 1, 2023.
What to do
- If you had a Benchmark account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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