ThisHabbo Forum data breach: 612K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2015-03-28
In 2014, the ThisHabbo forum (a fan site for Habbo.com, a Finnish social networking site) appeared among a list of compromised sites which has subsequently been removed from the internet. Whilst the actual date of the exploit is not clear, the breached data includes usernames, email addresses, IP addresses and salted hashes of passwords. A further 584k records were added from a more comprehensive breach file provided in October 2016. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jan 1, 2014; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 28, 2015.
What to do
- If you had a ThisHabbo Forum 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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