Movie Forums

What Happened

In December 2022, the Movie Forums website suffered a data breach that affected 40k users. The breach exposed email and IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and passwords stored as easily crackable salted MD5 hashes. The data was subsequently posted a popular clear web hacking forum.

Compromised Data

Dates of birth
Email addresses
IP addresses
Passwords
Usernames

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    39.9 thousand

  • Breach Occurred:

    November 2022

  • Added to HIBP:

    8 Dec 2023

Recommended Actions

Change Your Password

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

Enable Two-Factor Authentication

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