Zooville data breach: 71K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-10-19
In September 2019, the zoophilia and bestiality forum Zooville suffered a data breach. The usernames and email addresses of 71k members were accessed via an unpatched vulnerability in the vBulletin forum software then subsequently distributed online. A second data set was later provided to HIBP which contained a complete vBulletin database dump including IP addresses, dates of birth and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The site administrator advised that following the breach, all data had been deleted from the forum and a new one had been stood up on the XenForo platform. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Sep 27, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Oct 19, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a Zooville 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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