Benchmark

What Happened

In November 2019, the Serbian technology news website Benchmark suffered a breach of its forum that exposed 93k customer records. The breach exposed IP and email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. A forum administrator subsequently advised that the breach was due to the forum previously running on an outdated vBulletin instance.

Compromised Data

Email addresses
IP addresses
Passwords
Usernames

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    93.3 thousand

  • Breach Occurred:

    November 2019

  • Added to HIBP:

    1 Jan 2023

  • Attribution:

    ZAN @ BF

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