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Public breachBreachXposedOrNot· 1 Feb 2015

PSX-Scene

Domain: psx-scene.com

What happened

The Sony Playstation community's hub, PSX-Scene, encountered a major data security breach around February 2015. Over 340k members of this vBulletin forum found their accounts exposed. Disturbingly, not only were IP addresses made public, but passwords, stored as salted hashes, were also at risk due to a weak cryptographic implementation. This vulnerability allowed for a large portion of these passwords to be swiftly decrypted. Exposed data: Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames.

Breach facts

Records exposed
361,560
Sensitive
No
Industry
Entertainment
Data exposed
UsernamesEmail addressesPasswordsIP addresses

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.