Creative

What Happened

In May 2018, the forum for Singaporean hardware company Creative Technology suffered a data breach which resulted in the disclosure of 483k unique email addresses. Running on an old version of vBulletin, the breach also disclosed usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes. After being notified of the incident, Creative permanently shut down the forum.

Compromised Data

Email addresses
IP addresses
Passwords
Usernames

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    483 thousand

  • Breach Occurred:

    May 2018

  • Added to HIBP:

    7 Jun 2018

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