Demon Forums Data Breach

What Happened

In February 2019, the hacking forum Demon Forums suffered a data breach. The compromise of the vBulletin forum exposed 52k unique email addresses alongside usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.

Compromised Data

Email addresses
Passwords
Usernames

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    52.6 thousand

  • Breach Occurred:

    February 2019

  • Added to HIBP:

    4 Apr 2019

Recommended Actions

Change Your Password

If you haven’t already changed the password affected by this breach, do so immediately on every account where it was used.

Enable Two-Factor Authentication

Wherever 2FA is supported, add an extra layer of security to your account.

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