CrackingForum data breach: 660K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-12-10
In approximately mid-2016, the cracking community forum known as CrackingForum suffered a data breach. The vBulletin based forum exposed 660k email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jul 1, 2016; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Dec 10, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a CrackingForum 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.
Sources
All live incidents on Threat Watch