The Candid Board data breach: 178K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-01-22
In September 2015, the non-consensual voyeurism site "The Candid Board" suffered a data breach. The hack of the vBulletin forum led to the exposure of over 178k accounts along with email and IP addresses, dates of birth and salted passwords hashed with MD5. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, geographic locations, ip addresses, passwords, usernames, website activity. The breach dates from Sep 3, 2015; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 22, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a The Candid 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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