Programming Forums data breach: 707K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-07-01
In approximately late 2015, the programming forum at programmingforums.org suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 707k unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Dec 1, 2015; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 1, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a Programming Forums 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.
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