Demon Forums data breach: 52K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-04-04
In February 2019, the hacking forum Demon Forums suffered a data breach. The compromise of the vBulletin forum exposed 52k unique email addresses alongside usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Feb 20, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Apr 4, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a Demon Forums 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
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