MangaFox.me data breach: 1.3M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2018-03-17
In approximately July 2016, the manga website known as mangafox.me suffered a data breach. The vBulletin based forum exposed 1.3 million accounts including usernames, email and IP addresses, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jun 1, 2016; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 17, 2018.
What to do
- If you had a MangaFox.me 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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