vBulletin

What Happened

In November 2015, the forum software maker vBulletin suffered a serious data breach. The attack lead to the release of both forum user and customer accounts totalling almost 519k records. The breach included email addresses, birth dates, security questions and answers for customers and salted hashes of passwords for both sources.

Compromised Data

Dates of birth
Email addresses
Homepage URLs
Instant messenger identities
IP addresses
Passwords
Security questions and answers
Spoken languages
Website activity

Recommended Actions

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    519 thousand

  • Breach Occurred:

    November 2015

  • Added to HIBP:

    24 Jan 2016

Recommended Actions

Change Your Password

If you haven't changed your vBulletin password since 2015, do so immediately.

Enable Two-Factor Authentication

Add an extra layer of security to your account.

1Password

Use 1Password to generate and store strong, unique passwords for all your accounts.

Try 1Password