Personal Data Leak Monitor

The Botting Network data breach

96.3K accounts from The Botting Network (thebotnet.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
August 12, 2012
Accounts
96,320
Added to the database
December 18, 2025

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What leaked

Dates of birthEmail 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 2012, the forum for making money with botting "The Botting Network" suffered a data breach that exposed 96k user records. The now defunct vBulletin forum leaked 96k email addresses, usernames, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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