Cracked.to data breach: 749K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-08-12
In July 2019, the hacking website Cracked.to suffered a data breach. There were 749k unique email addresses spread across 321k forum users and other tables in the database. A rival hacking website claimed responsibility for breaching the MyBB based forum which disclosed email and IP addresses, usernames, private messages and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, private messages, usernames. The breach dates from Jul 21, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Aug 12, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a Cracked.to 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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