PPCGeeks data breach: 492K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-07-18
In August 2016, the pocket PC fan site forum PPCGeeks suffered a data breach that exposed over 490k records. The breach of the vBulletin forum exposed email and IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Aug 19, 2016; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 18, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a PPCGeeks 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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