Data breach
Bitcoin Talkbitcointalk.org
501 407 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2015-05-22.
Breached2015-05-22Added to HIBP2017-03-27 UTCUpdated by HIBP2017-03-27 UTCAccounts501 407Domainbitcointalk.org
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
In May 2015, the Bitcoin forum Bitcoin Talk was hacked and over 500k unique email addresses were exposed. The attack led to the exposure of a raft of personal data including usernames, email and IP addresses, genders, birth dates, security questions and MD5 hashes of their answers plus hashes of the passwords themselves.
Exposed data as HIBP classifies it
- Dates of birth
- Email addresses
- Genders
- IP addresses
- Passwords
- Security questions and answers
- Usernames
- Website activity
How HIBP qualifies it
- HIBP verified that the data came from this service.
Our report on bitcointalk.org
Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)
Copied from HIBP 2026-11-05 03:50 UTC