Personal Data Leak Monitor

Linux Forums data breach

276K accounts from Linux Forums (linuxforums.org) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
May 1, 2018
Accounts
275,785
Added to the database
June 7, 2018

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What leaked

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What to do now

  1. Please change that password, and anywhere you reused it
  2. Do not tap links in emails claiming to be that service
  3. Verify you have not reused that login anywhere

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About this breach

In May 2018, the Linux Forums website suffered a data breach which resulted in the disclosure of 276k unique email addresses. Running on an old version of vBulletin, the breach also disclosed usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes. Linux Forums did not respond to multiple attempts to contact them about the breach.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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