Lounge Board data breach: 45K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2014-07-06
At some point in 2013, 45k accounts were breached from the Lounge Board "General Discussion Forum" and then dumped publicly. Lounge Board was a MyBB forum launched in 2012 and discontinued in mid 2013 (the last activity in the logs was from August 2013). Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, names, passwords, private messages, usernames, website activity. The breach dates from Aug 1, 2013; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 6, 2014.
What to do
- If you had a Lounge Board 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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