MediumBreachHave I Been Pwned — public breach catalog· 26 Jul 2023

BreachForums — 212K accounts

Severity: Medium · Kind: Data breach

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In November 2022, the well-known hacking forum "BreachForums" was itself, breached. Later the following year, the operator of the website was arrested and the site seized by law enforcement agencies . The breach exposed 212k records including usernames, IP and email addresses, private messages between site members and passwords stored as argon2 hashes./a>.

Breach facts

Accounts affected
212,156
Verified
Yes
Sensitive
No
Domain
breached.vc
Data exposed
Email addressesIP addressesPasswordsPrivate messagesUsernames

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