hackforums.net data breach
The hackforums.net breach happened on June 25, 2011 and exposed 191,540 accounts. 11 kinds of data were exposed.
Overview
- Site
- hackforums.net
- Breach date
- June 25, 2011
- Recorded on
- May 11, 2014
- Accounts exposed
- 191,540
- Exposed data
- Dates of birth, Email addresses, Instant messenger identities, IP addresses, Passwords, Social connections, Spoken languages, Time zones, User website URLs, Usernames, Website activity
- Risk score
- 77 out of 100
Risk based on the exposed data
This breach scores 77 out of 100. The score is driven mostly by Passwords, Dates of birth, Email addresses.
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
- Battlefield Heroes (2011-06-26, 530,270 accounts)
- Civil Online (2011-07-10, 7,830,195 accounts)
- Sony (2011-06-02, 37,103 accounts)
What affected users should do
- Change your hackforums.net 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 7, 2016. Breach dates are as originally listed; when only the month is known, the date is recorded as the 1st.