Public breachBreachXposedOrNot· 1 Jul 2016
dBforums
Domain: dbforums.com
What happened
A significant data breach occurred at dBforums, a now-defunct database forum in July 2016, . This breach surfaced when data from dBforums appeared for sale along with data from several other entities hacked from the parent company, Penton. The breach compromised 363K unique accounts and entailed exposure of various personal information including usernames, email addresses, IP addresses, dates of birth, and password hashes - salted MD5.
Breach facts
- Records exposed
- 363,305
- Sensitive
- No
- Industry
- Information Technology
- Data exposed
- Email addressesPasswordsIP addressesUsernamesDates of birth
This page summarises publicly reported breach metadata for awareness. For account recovery or incident response, use the official guidance from the affected service.
Breach data provided by XposedOrNot.