HongFire data breach: 999K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-02-05
In March 2015, the anime and manga forum HongFire suffered a data breach. The hack of their vBulletin forum led to the exposure of 1 million accounts along with email and IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and salted MD5 passwords. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Mar 1, 2015; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 5, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a HongFire 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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