vBulletin data breach: 518K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2016-01-24
In November 2015, the forum software maker vBulletin suffered a serious data breach. The attack lead to the release of both forum user and customer accounts totalling almost 519k records. The breach included email addresses, birth dates, security questions and answers for customers and salted hashes of passwords for both sources. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, homepage urls, instant messenger identities, ip addresses, passwords, security questions and answers, spoken languages, website activity. The breach dates from Nov 3, 2015; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 24, 2016.
What to do
- If you had a vBulletin 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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