Boxee data breach
The Boxee breach happened on March 29, 2014 and exposed 158,093 accounts. 10 kinds of data were exposed.
Overview
- Site
- forums.boxee.com
- Breach date
- March 29, 2014
- Recorded on
- March 30, 2014
- Accounts exposed
- 158,093
- Exposed data
- Dates of birth, Email addresses, Geographic locations, Historical passwords, Instant messenger identities, IP addresses, Passwords, Private messages, User website URLs, Usernames
- Risk score
- 89 out of 100
Risk based on the exposed data
This breach scores 89 out of 100. The score is driven mostly by Passwords, Historical passwords, Private messages.
The risk score is a guide to how dangerous a breach is, judged by the kinds of data exposed. The number of accounts is not included.
Breaches from the same period
- BigMoneyJobs (2014-04-03, 36,789 accounts)
- Quantum Booter (2014-03-18, 48,592 accounts)
- CafeMom (2014-04-10, 2,628,148 accounts)
What affected users should do
- Change your Boxee password, and also change it on any other service where you used the same password. You can create a new one with the password generator.
- Turn on two-factor authentication for your login.
This site organizes publicly available information about data breaches. Data as of November 9, 2017. Breach dates are as originally listed; when only the month is known, the date is recorded as the 1st.