Personal Data Leak Monitor

Bitcoin Talk data breach

501K accounts from Bitcoin Talk (bitcointalk.org) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
May 22, 2015
Accounts
501,407
Added to the database
March 27, 2017

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What leaked

Dates of birthEmail addressesGendersIP addressesPasswordsSecurity questions and answersUsernamesWebsite activity

What to do now

  1. Please change that password, and anywhere you reused it
  2. If your birthday is a PIN, kindly change it
  3. Do not tap links in emails claiming to be that service
  4. Verify you have not reused that login anywhere

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About this breach

In May 2015, the Bitcoin forum Bitcoin Talk was hacked and over 500k unique email addresses were exposed. The attack led to the exposure of a raft of personal data including usernames, email and IP addresses, genders, birth dates, security questions and MD5 hashes of their answers plus hashes of the passwords themselves.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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