Data breach
BreachForumsbreached.vc
212 156 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2022-11-29.
Breached2022-11-29Added to HIBP2023-07-26 UTCUpdated by HIBP2023-07-26 UTCAccounts212 156Domainbreached.vc
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
In November 2022, the well-known hacking forum "BreachForums" was itself, breached. Later the following year, the operator of the website was arrested and the site seized by law enforcement agencies. The breach exposed 212k records including usernames, IP and email addresses, private messages between site members and passwords stored as argon2 hashes.
Exposed data as HIBP classifies it
- Email addresses
- IP addresses
- Passwords
- Private messages
- Usernames
How HIBP qualifies it
- HIBP verified that the data came from this service.
Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)
Copied from HIBP 2026-11-05 03:50 UTC