Personal Data Leak Monitor

hackforums.net data breach

192K accounts from hackforums.net (hackforums.net) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
June 25, 2011
Accounts
191,540
Added to the database
May 11, 2014

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What leaked

Dates of birthEmail addressesInstant messenger identitiesIP addressesPasswordsSocial connectionsSpoken languagesTime zonesUser website URLsUsernamesWebsite 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 June 2011, the hacktivist group known as "LulzSec" leaked one final large data breach they titled "50 days of lulz". The compromised data came from sources such as AT&T, Battlefield Heroes and the hackforums.net website. The leaked Hack Forums data included credentials and personal information of nearly 200,000 registered forum users.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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