BreachForums

What Happened

In November 2022, the well-known hacking forum "BreachForums" was itself, breached. Later the following year, the operator of the website was arrested and the site seized by law enforcement agencies. The breach exposed 212k records including usernames, IP and email addresses, private messages between site members and passwords stored as argon2 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "breached_db_person".

Compromised Data

Email addresses
IP addresses
Passwords
Private messages
Usernames

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    212.2 thousand

  • Breach Occurred:

    November 2022

  • Added to HIBP:

    26 Jul 2023

Recommended Actions

Change Your Password

If you haven't changed your BreachForums password since 2022, do so immediately.

Enable Two-Factor Authentication

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