MediumBreachHave I Been Pwned — public breach catalog· 17 Dec 2025
Web Hosting Talk — 515K accounts
Severity: Medium · Kind: Data breach
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In July 2016, the Web Hosting Talk forum suffered a data breach that was subsequently listed for sale . The breach of the vBulletin based forum exposed 515k user records including usernames, email addresses, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
Breach facts
- Accounts affected
- 515,149
- Verified
- Yes
- Sensitive
- No
- Domain
- webhostingtalk.com
- Data exposed
- Email addressesIP addressesPasswordsUsernames
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