Data breach
Linux Forumslinuxforums.org
275 785 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2018-05-01.
Breached2018-05-01Added to HIBP2018-06-07 UTCUpdated by HIBP2024-09-04 UTCAccounts275 785Domainlinuxforums.org
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
In May 2018, the Linux Forums website suffered a data breach which resulted in the disclosure of 276k unique email addresses. Running on an old version of vBulletin, the breach also disclosed usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes. Linux Forums did not respond to multiple attempts to contact them about the breach.
Exposed data as HIBP classifies it
- Email addresses
- IP addresses
- Passwords
- 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