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Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
366K
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
7
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2016
MrExcel

Breach History

MrExcel
Dec 2016Critical
366.1K
Records exposed
7
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

In December 2016, the forum for the Microsoft Excel tips and solutions site Mr Excel suffered a data breach. The hack of the vBulletin forum led to the exposure of over 366k accounts along with email and IP addresses, dates of birth and salted passwords hashed with MD5. The owner of the MrExcel forum subsequently self-submitted the data to HIBP.

Exposed Data Types
Dates of birthEmail addressesIP addressesPasswordsSocial connectionsUsernamesWebsite activity
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Dates of birthMedium risk
Email addressesLow risk
IP addressesMedium risk
PasswordsHigh risk
Social connectionsLow risk
UsernamesLow risk
Website activityLow risk