Boxee data breach: 158K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2014-03-30
In March 2014, the home theatre PC software maker Boxee had their forums compromised in an attack. The attackers obtained the entire vBulletin MySQL database and promptly posted it for download on the Boxee forum itself. The data included 160k users, password histories, private messages and a variety of other data exposed across nearly 200 publicly exposed tables. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, geographic locations, historical passwords, instant messenger identities, ip addresses, passwords, private messages, user website urls, usernames. The breach dates from Mar 29, 2014; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 30, 2014.
What to do
- If you had a Boxee 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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