Data breach
The Botting Networkthebotnet.com
96 320 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2012-08-12.
Breached2012-08-12Added to HIBP2025-12-18 UTCUpdated by HIBP2025-12-18 UTCAccounts96 320Domainthebotnet.com
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
In August 2012, the forum for making money with botting "The Botting Network" suffered a data breach that exposed 96k user records. The now defunct vBulletin forum leaked 96k email addresses, usernames, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes.
Exposed data as HIBP classifies it
- Dates of birth
- Email addresses
- Passwords
- Usernames
How HIBP qualifies it
- HIBP verified that the data came from this service.
Our report on thebotnet.com
Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)
Copied from HIBP 2026-11-05 03:50 UTC