ForumCommunity data breach: 776K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2018-12-05
In approximately mid-2016, the Italian-based service for creating forums known as ForumCommunity suffered a data breach. The incident impacted over 776k unique email addresses along with usernames and unsalted MD5 password hashes. No response was received from ForumCommunity when contacted. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jun 1, 2016; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Dec 5, 2018.
What to do
- If you had a ForumCommunity 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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