Bleach Anime Forum data breach: 143K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2023-11-29
In 2015, the now defunct independent forum for the Bleach Anime series suffered a data breach that exposed 144k user records. The impacted data included usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 password hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jan 1, 2015; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 29, 2023.
What to do
- If you had a Bleach Anime Forum 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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