Data breach
Web Hosting Talkwebhostingtalk.com
515 149 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2016-07-01.
Breached2016-07-01Added to HIBP2025-12-17 UTCUpdated by HIBP2025-12-17 UTCAccounts515 149Domainwebhostingtalk.com
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
In July 2016, the Web Hosting Talk forum suffered a data breach that was subsequently listed for sale. The breach of the vBulletin based forum exposed 515k user records including usernames, email addresses, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
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