Personal Data Leak Monitor

Mac Forums data breach

327K accounts from Mac Forums (mac-forums.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
July 3, 2016
Accounts
326,714
Added to the database
October 29, 2018

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What leaked

Dates of birthEmail addressesIP addressesPasswordsUsernames

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 July 2016, the self-proclaimed "Ultimate Source For Your Mac" website Mac Forums suffered a data breach. The vBulletin-based system exposed over 326k usernames, email and IP addresses, dates of birth and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was later discovered being traded on a popular hacking forum. Mac Forums did not respond when contacted about the incident via their contact us form.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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