Personal Data Leak Monitor

PPCGeeks data breach

493K accounts from PPCGeeks (ppcgeeks.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
August 19, 2016
Accounts
492,518
Added to the database
July 18, 2022

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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 August 2016, the pocket PC fan site forum PPCGeeks suffered a data breach that exposed over 490k records. The breach of the vBulletin forum exposed email and IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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